Is there a "childless vote" in Europe?
Demographics
Fertility
Ideology
Political attitudes
Voting
Journal
International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie
ISSN: 1464-066X
Titre abrégé: Int J Psychol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0107305
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
29
01
2023
accepted:
15
08
2023
medline:
14
11
2023
pubmed:
8
9
2023
entrez:
8
9
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We examined associations between childlessness and voting in Europe. We used cross-sectional European Social Survey data from 20 countries (n = 37,623). Our results suggest that there is a "childless vote" in Europe. Supporting our pre-registered hypothesis, childless individuals voted for parties that had visibly positioned themselves at the Green-Alternative-Libertarian (GAL) pole of the GAL-TAN (GAL vs. Traditional-Authoritarian-Nationalist) ideological dimension. The pre-registered explorative analyses of associations between childlessness and economic left-right ideology or other policy positions of the party for which the individual had voted did not yield results. Explorative analyses suggested in the review process showed that self-rated religiosity was independently associated with childlessness, but ideological left-right self-placement or self-ratings of political attitudes were not. Our results suggest a new demographic prognostic of vote choice, thus adding to the literature on demographic processes associated with political dynamics.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
512-517Subventions
Organisme : Academy of Finland
ID : 338891
Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. International Journal of Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Union of Psychological Science.
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