Are citizens pliable? Political socialization.

Required:

Clawson & Oxley pp. 43-59

Lutz, Wolfgang, Sylvia Kritzinger, and Vegard Skirbekk.  2006.  "Population: The Demography of Growing European Identity."  Science 314: 425-25.

Down, Ian, and Carole J. Wilson. 2013. "A rising generation of Europeans? Life-cycle and cohort effects on support for 'Europe'." European Journal of Political Research 52 (4):431-56.

            - in case of this article, don't worry about the technical aspects of the article, focus on the substantive argument the article makes.

Recommended:

Jennings, K. and Niemi, R. 1968. "The Transmission of  Political Values from Parent to Child," American Political Science Review 62.

Jennings, K. "Political Socialization," in The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior, ed. Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mishler, W., and R. Rose.  2007.  "Generation, Age, and Time: The Dynamics of Political Learning During Russia's Transformation."  American Journal of Political Science 51: 822-34.