Public Opinion Quarterly 33:583-588 (1969)
© 1969 American Association for Public Opinion Research
GENERATION, MATURATION, AND PARTY AFFILIATION: A COHORT ANALYSIS
Dr. Cutler, currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Foreign Policy Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, submitted this article while Research Political Scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations above
Do people really get more conservative as they get older? Or is the observation of old-age conservatism an artifact of the cross-sectional method of stirvey research? Questions such as these, concerning the relationship of a basic and irreversible behavioral phenomenon—chronological aging-to attitudes and predispositions (e.g. conservatism), are highly significant for under standing change in social and political systems. The cross-sectional photo graph of human behavior usually given by survey research may in fact show that the older members of a population are more conservative than the younger. But a longitudinal look at this behavior reveals that differences in age are more strongly related to generational than to maturational differences.
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