The Endurance of Politicians' Values Over Four Decades
A Panel Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3378049 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald D Searing (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author), William G Jacoby (Michigan State University, corresponding author), Andrew H Tyner (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 226-241 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055418000692 |
| OpenAlex | W2902174563 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 65 |
How much do the political values of politicians endure throughout their careers? And how might the endurance be explained? This paper uses a unique longitudinal data set to examine the persistence of political values among national politicians: members of the British House of Commons, who completed Rokeach-type value ranking instruments during 1971-73 and again 40 years later in 2012-16. The findings show remarkable stability and provide strong support for the persistence hypothesis which predicts that politicians develop crystallized value systems by their early thirties and largely maintain those values into retirement. This is consistent with the view that rapid changes in aggregate party ideologies have more to do with new views among new waves of recruits than with conversions among old members
Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · House of Commons · Ideology · Panel data · Persistence (discontinuity · Political science · Political stability · Politics · Ranking (information retrieval · Statistics · Value (mathematics · Cultural Differences and Values · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Engineering · Law · Mathematics · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |