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Family Ties and Political Participation
by
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano
(April 2009)
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 817-839
Abstract:
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper we contribute to the investigation of the origin and evolution of social capital over time. We establish these results using within country evidence and looking at the behavior of immigrants from various countries in 32 different destination places.
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 4150 
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