Thatcher’s Children, Blair’s Babies, political socialisation and trickle-down value-change: an age, period and cohort analysis
Thatcher’s Children, Blair’s Babies, political socialisation and trickle-down value-change: an age, period and cohort analysis
To what extent are new generations ‘Thatcherite’? Using British Social Attitudes data for 1985-2012 and applying age-period-cohort (APC) analysis and generalized additive models (GAMs) this article investigates whether Thatcher’s Children hold more right-authoritarian political values compared to other political generations. The study further examine the extent to which the generation that came of age under New Labour – Blair’s Babies – share these values. The findings for generation effects indicate that this political generation is even more right-authoritarian, including with respect to attitudes to redistribution, welfare and crime. This view is supported by evidence of cohort effects. These results show that the legacy of Thatcherism for left-right and libertarian-authoritarian values is its long-term shaping of public opinion through political socialisation.
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Grasso, Maria Teresa
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Grasso, Maria Teresa, Farrall, Stephen, Gray, Emily, Hay, Colin and Jennings, Will
(2019)
Thatcher’s Children, Blair’s Babies, political socialisation and trickle-down value-change: an age, period and cohort analysis.
British Journal of Political Science, 49 (1), .
(doi:10.1017/S0007123416000375).
Abstract
To what extent are new generations ‘Thatcherite’? Using British Social Attitudes data for 1985-2012 and applying age-period-cohort (APC) analysis and generalized additive models (GAMs) this article investigates whether Thatcher’s Children hold more right-authoritarian political values compared to other political generations. The study further examine the extent to which the generation that came of age under New Labour – Blair’s Babies – share these values. The findings for generation effects indicate that this political generation is even more right-authoritarian, including with respect to attitudes to redistribution, welfare and crime. This view is supported by evidence of cohort effects. These results show that the legacy of Thatcherism for left-right and libertarian-authoritarian values is its long-term shaping of public opinion through political socialisation.
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 March 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 January 2017
Published date: January 2019
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