Demography leads to more conservative European societies
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19485565.2024.2419075" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19485565.2024.2419075</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2024.2419075" target="_blank" >10.1080/19485565.2024.2419075</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Demography leads to more conservative European societies
Original language description
Using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (a total of 66,188 participants from 15 European countries) and the European Gender and Generation Survey (a total of 121,248 participants from 12 countries), we investigated i) whether differences in political attitudes and attitudes toward family values (i.e. attitudes toward homosexual couples, attitudes toward female reproduction) are associated with differences in the average number of children, and ii) whether such an association between fertility and attitudes affects the population share of these attitudes in subsequent generations. We found that in most of the countries analyzed, right-wing (conservative) individuals have, on average, more children and grandchildren than left-wing (liberal) individuals. We also found that the proportion of right-wing individuals increases from generation to generation. Since political attitudes are presumably evolved traits that are socially and genetically transmitted from one generation to the next, these findings may suggest that demographic differences can lead to shifts in prevailing political attitudes. Thus, to some extent, demography may explain longer-term political trends.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50400 - Sociology
Result continuities
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Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biodemography and Social Biology
ISSN
1948-5565
e-ISSN
1948-5573
Volume of the periodical
69
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
183-202
UT code for WoS article
001348646200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85209359529