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Birth Order and Voter Turnout
The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Oslo, Norway.
Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, New York, United States.
The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Oslo, Norway.
Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, Sweden.
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2022 (English)In: British Journal of Political Science, ISSN 0007-1234, E-ISSN 1469-2112, Vol. 52, no 1, p. 475-482Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Previous studies have stressed the role of a child's family environment for future political participation. This field of research has, however, overlooked that children within the same family have different experiences depending on their birth order. First-borns spend their first years of life without having to compete over their parents' attention and resources, while their younger siblings are born into potential rivalry. We examine differences in turnout depending on birth order, using unique population-wide individual level register data from Sweden and Norway that enables precise within-family estimates. We consistently find that higher birth order entails lower turnout, and that the turnout differential with respect to birth order is stronger when turnout is lower. The link between birth order and turnout holds when we use data from four other, non-Nordic countries. This birth order effect appears to be partly mediated by socio-economic position and attitudinal predispositions.

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS , 2022. Vol. 52, no 1, p. 475-482
Keywords [en]
voter turnout, birth order, political socialization, family size
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Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-168490DOI: 10.1017/S0007123419000826ISI: 000731744700031Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85088540833OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-168490DiVA, id: diva2:1460803
Available from: 2020-08-25 Created: 2020-08-25 Last updated: 2023-01-09Bibliographically approved

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