Generational and life-cycle effects on support for Quebec independence
| Autor: | Charles Tessier, Éric Montigny, Yannick Dufresne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sociology and Political Science
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Comparative politics Public opinion Circumstantial evidence Independence 0506 political science Test (assessment) Variation (linguistics) Age groups General theory Political economy 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration 050207 economics business media_common |
| Zdroj: | French Politics. 17:50-63 |
| ISSN: | 1476-3427 1476-3419 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41253-019-00083-9 |
| Popis: | The resurgence of separatist movements in Scotland and Catalonia illuminate the ebb and flow of such movements over time. The catalysts of separatism in post-industrial democracies are largely treated as circumstantial, but intergenerational data on attitudes towards independence might assist the development of a general theory of support for separatism. This replace draws on the case of Quebec, leveraging a half-century worth of public opinion data to investigate intergenerational shifts in attitudes towards separatism. Historical data from the Canadian Election Study (CES 1968–2011) allow us to test the relationship between attitudes towards independence among youth in Quebec and general levels of support for separatism. Coupled with this are the more than 1 million observations from the 2011 Canadian federal as well as the 2012 and 2014 Quebec provincial editions of Vote Compass. This last dataset allows us to estimate the variation in support for Quebec independence for very precise age groups defined at the year-of-birth level. The results show a clear generational cycle variation that appears correlated with specific series of historical events. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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