Deconfessionalisering en radicalisering bij studenten?

Abstract

Survey results concerning undergraduate students in political and social sciences at Amsterdam and Leyden suggest that the majority of these students prefer the same political party as their fathers do. When they deviate from their fathers’ party choice, they tend to reject confessional parties (KVP, AR, CH, SGP and GPV). Furthermore, they shift more to ’the left’ than to ’the right’ in comparison to the party preference of their fathers (a continuum was presumed to exist, in terms of which Dutch patties were ranked from ’left’ to ’right’ in the following order; CPN, PSP, PvdA, D’66, KVP, AR, CH, VVD, SGP, GPV, BP, rest). The tendency to turn away from confessional parties appeared to be connected with rejection of church-membership by students whose fathers belong to a church. Finally, an index of the socio-economic position of the student did not show an appreciable correlation with preference for ’leftist’ parties (PvdA, PSP or CPN).