What might be termed the nationalism assumption is simply that youths’ socialization reflects salient political contexts of their nation-states. Schooling and the family are not precluded as socializing agents but they are seen as secondary transmitters of unique and durable national cultures and political traditions that are the substance of citizenship production, an image of unique national history as a story of a committed citizenry, even reaching into pre-national realms of folklore (Anderson, 1996). And there are some empirical studies that suggest that political socialization of youth is largely influenced by specific political characteristics of nations (Coenders and Scheeper, 2003; Inglehart 1997;Selznick & Steinberg, 1969; Weil (1985)