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Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialist values in Germany over two decades, this article provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, the combined socialisation and scarcity hypothesis is tested against the social learning hypothesis – a prominent rival account of preadult value preference ...
In:
European Journal of Political Research
48 (2009), 5, 598-621
| Martin Kroh
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(DIW Berlin Data Documentation 50)
| Martin Kroh
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(DIW Berlin Data Documentation 59)
| Martin Kroh
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While some scholars interpret the frequently documented association between age and the strength of party identification as evidence of accumulated political learning, others stress the importance of critical life stages. Germany's turbulent last century, with its suspensions of democratic processes, provides the unique opportunity to empirically disentangle both effects and to also study the ...
In:
Electoral Studies
33 (2014), March 2014, 90-101
| Martin Kroh
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People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty threshold and the working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany has slightly above-average levels of inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has followed an upward trend over the ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
4 (2014), 1, 3-14
| Martin Kroh, Christian Könnecke
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Towards the very end of this legislative period, a cross-caucus parliamentary majority gave same-sex marriage the green light – progress for the legal equality of homosexuals in Germany. This report focuses on the life situations of homosexual and bisexual people in Germany. The careers they pursue, for example, differ from those of heterosexuals. Hourly wages are an area of significant disparity: ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
7 (2017), 33/34/35, 335-345
| Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, Christian Kipp, David Richter
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Web-based interviewing is gradually replacing traditional modes of data collection, in particular telephone and mailed surveys. This global trend takes place despite the fact that established knowledge of its consequences on response error is incomplete. This paper studies differences between a web (CAWI) and a mailed version (MAIL) of a questionnaire in various forms of response error, namely item ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 888)
| Martin Kroh, Denise Lüdtke, Sandra Düzel, Florin Winter
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In:
Methoden - Daten - Analysen
2 (2008), 2, 179-198
| Martin Kroh, Rainer Pischner, Martin Spieß, Gert G. Wagner
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In:
John Bartle, Paolo Bellucci ,
Political parties and partisanship : social identity and individual attitudes (ECPR studies in European political science ; 57)
Abingdon and New York: Routledge
107-120
| Martin Kroh, Peter Selb
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Extensive research efforts notwithstanding, scholars continue to disagree on the nature and meaning of party identification. Traditionalists conceive of partisanship as a largely affective attachment to a political party that emerges in childhood through parental influences and tends to persist throughout life. The revisionist conception of partisanship is that of a running tally of party utilities ...
In:
Political Behavior
31 (2009), 4, 559-574
| Martin Kroh, Peter Selb