# Family Matters: How Older People Vote for the Wellbeing of their Younger Relatives
**Date de l'événement :** 11/04/2023
* Publié le 11/04/2023

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## Description
**Jane Green** and her co-authors derive a family-centred theory of electoral behaviour wherein older adults are willing to forego benefits to their own generation if they perceive younger family members to be struggling financially. Employing a large novel survey, multiple new family-centred survey items, analysis across policy domains and a survey experiment, they demonstrate support for their theory. Negative evaluations of the financial wellbeing of younger family members – which are closely linked to objective economic circumstances – are associated with older adults being more likely to support ‘pro-youth’ policies, to forego spending on their own generation, and to vote against the incumbent. These effects are not reducible to explicit self-interest motivations on behalf of older relatives themselves. They argue that conventional self-interest assumptions require modification: people vote for the well-being of their close family members. The implications are important for understanding voter behaviour and the electoral incentives of politicians in an era of aging populations.  
  
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## Intervenant(s)
Jane Green

## Intervenant(s) secondaires
Théodore Tallent, Florence Faucher

### Date de publication de l'épisode
11/04/2023

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### Discipline(s)
`#Science politique` 

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