Like Mother, Like Daughter: Intergenerational Transmission of DK Response Rates |
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| Authors: | RAPOPORT RONALD B |
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| Institution: | Ronald B. Rapoport is an Associate Professor of Government, College of William and Mary. The data for this study were made available by the Inter-University Consortium for Social and Political Research. Neither the Consortium nor the original collectors of the data are responsible for the analyses or interpretations presented here. The author would like to acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of Don Alexander, David Finifter, Fritz Gaenslen, Will Hausman, Eric Jensen, and the anonymous reviewers on an earlier version of this paper. |
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| Abstract: | Attitude expression (and its opposite, DK response rate) isan important personal and political characteristic which isrelated to an individual's psychological and demographic traits.It is also transmitted from parent to child. In fact, it istransmitted to a greater degree than other political attitudesexamined here, with the exception of partisanship. Owing tothe fact that males show higher levels of attitude expression,and because this tendency is reinforced by cultural norms, thetransmission process for attitude expression is conditionedby the sex of child and of parent. Compared with the father'simpact, mothers are particularly influential in transmittingattitude expression to daughters. While fathers have a somewhatstronger effect on sons than do mothers, the difference is substantiallysmaller. |
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