How political views are formed?

These factors and many others that people are introduced to as they grow up will affect their political views throughout the rest of their lives. Political beliefs are often formed during childhood, as parents pass down their ideologies to their children and so on. read more

Political socialization is when people of all ages acquire political attitudes, cognition and behavior. This socialization comes from many places, and most of the times it is transmitted from one generation to another. Alongside the views and preferences that stay with the person for the rest of their lives. read more

A study recently published in the British Journal of Political Science, based on data from the U.S. and U.K., found that parents who are insistent that their children adopt their political views inadvertently influence their children to abandon the belief once they become adults. read more

Also, my political views were formed by our participation on campaigns (mayoral, senatorial and congressional), as well as by what I read and learned both in school and in the newspaper, and from conversations and books that my parents had at home. read more