The Relationship between Openness and Political Liberalism is Likely Spurious: Evidence from Household Panel Studies

• In Event: Ideology

Brief Overview

Research often finds that those high on openness tend to be more liberal. Using data from the US and Britain, we show that this relationship disappears after controlling for household fixed effects.

Authors

• Christopher Prosser

• Jack Bailey, The University of Manchester

• Jonathan Andrew Mellon, University of Manchester