Är du familjär med offentlig sektor? : En studie i politisk socialisation

Sammanfattning: Political scientists have long been fascinated by theories of political knowledge and what causes it to vary. Theories of political socialization, derived from psychological theories of social learning, have been the driving force behind many of these studies. In this study, it is proposed that there is a causal connection between parents being civil servants and their children having a large knowledge of the same sector. In theories on political socialization it has been suggested  that the effect of political socialization is most prevalent among young adults in the years before leaving home. In this study, theories of social learning and political socialization are thus used to elaborate an understanding of a proposed causal connection between parents being civil servants and their children’s knowledge of the same sector. Surveys are used to find data and the method of OLS, Ordinary Least Squared, is used to find potential causal connections. Using OLS estimators, this study finds no such hypothesized causal connection, but finds that the effect of political socialization seems to be larger after the children have moved out, rather than before as studies before have shown.