Do Spouses Influence Each Other's Political Opinions? Observational and Experimental Evidence from U.S. and U.K. Surveys

• In Event: JSS: Affective Polarization II

Brief Overview

Many studies have focused on parent-to-child political influence; far fewer have explored political influence between spouses. This paper uses UK and US panel data and a novel survey experiment to explore spousal influence of political opinions.

Author

• Sierra D Davis Thomander, Stanford University