Children's Partisan Loyalties in a New Nation: A Research Note Using Indian Data

Using a sample of Indian high school students, this article finds that party identification remains relatively stable over a period of two years. The largest component of change is developmental in that many respondents change from nonpartisan to partisan. Predictors of partisan stability are examnined, and knowledge of parental partisanship is found to be the most significant. Shanto Iyengar is Associate Professor of Political Science, Kansas State UJniversity. Data collection was made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation (GS-38329) and the American Philosophical Society. Public Opinioni Quarterly ? 1978 by The Trustees of Columbia University Published by Elsevi&r North-Holland, Inc. 0033-362X/78/0042-01151$01.75 This content downloaded from 207.46.13.111 on Tue, 09 Aug 2016 06:17:20 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms