Does it matter who Candidates Marry? Assessing the Electoral Consequences of Interracial Marriages

• In Event: Campaigning Amid Race

Brief Overview

Using a partial factorial survey experiment, we assess the degree to which White, Black, Latinx and Asian voters’ evaluate hypothetical candidates differently based on whether these candidates are in same-race or mixed-race marriages.

Authors

• Paul Franz Testa, Brown University

• David Benjamin Skarbek, Duke University

• Brandon Rudolph Davis, University of Kansas