You’ve Either Got It or You Don’t? The Stability of Political Interest over the Life Cycle

By Markus Prior. 2010

476 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. G. Huber
2. D. Doherty
3. Conor M. Dowling
4. A. Gerber
5. Paul Marx
6. P. Emmenegger
7. Dominik Schraff
8. Silvia Russo

In Strategy and Management

1. Silvia Russo
2. Håkan Stattin
3. Stephanie Edgerly

Citations in the corpus

• Labour Market Disadvantage, Political Orientations and Voting: How Adverse Labour Market Experiences Translate into Electoral Behaviour (2015, background): “The propensity to participate and underlying political orientations are often found to be rather stable and only affected by significant disruptive experiences (Plutzer, 2002; Prior, 2010).”
• Personality Traits and the Consumption of Political Information (2011, background): “…Bouchard & Loehlin, 2001; Caspi et al., 2005; Plomin & Caspi, 1999; Plomin et al., 1990; van Gestel & van Broeckhoven, 2003), the association between the Big Five and political interest might help to explain why political interest also appears to be stable over the life cycle (see Prior, 2010).”
• Stability and Change in Youths’ Political Interest (2016, background): “The literature so far has shown that, if we want to study change in political interest, we need to focus on adolescents (Prior 2010) and compare them with older age cohorts.”
• The Relationship between Genes, Psychological Traits, and Political Participation (2014, unknown): “Our result that 50% of the variation in political interest can be attributable to genetic factors potentially has implications for the finding by Prior (2010) that people tend to be either interested or uninterested in politics and that this predisposition is exceptionally stable over the life cycle.”
• The head and heart of news avoidance: How attitudes about the news media relate to levels of news consumption (2021, background): “This explanation is particularly disconcerting as political interest is an ‘exceptionally stable’ trait, such that ‘you either have it, or you don’t’ (Prior, 2010).”