Book review: Growing into politics: contexts and timing of political socialisation, edited by Simone Abendschӧn

"Growing into Politics: Contexts and Timing of Political Socialisation." Simone Abendschӧn (ed.). ECPR Press. October 2013. --- This book presents up-to-date empirical research on crucial questions of political socialisation. The volume maintains that political socialisation is no universal or independent phenomenon, but one significantly shaped by the surrounding parameters of the society in which it is embedded. Simone Abendschӧn has assembled a strong collection that should ideally encourage aspiring PhD candidates in politics, sociology and education to open up the study of political socialisation further by incorporating new contexts, debates and methodologies, writes Alex Hensby.