Mixed partisan households and electoral participation in the United States
Mixed partisan households and electoral participation in the United States
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美国的混合党派家庭和选举参与
作者：
Eitan Hersh;Yair Ghitza
研究表明，党派成员在选择邻居、社交网络，甚至配偶时，越来越回避另一党派的成员。我们利用国家选民登记记录数据库分析了美国 1800 万个家庭，发现十分之三的已婚夫妇的政党背景不匹配。我们观察异性婚姻与性别、年龄、地域的关系。我们讨论这些发现对美国政治行为的关键问题有何影响。然后，我们测试跨党派夫妇是否不太积极参与政治。我们发现选民投票率与配偶的政党相关。与同党人士结婚的党派人士更有可能投票。这种现象对于非党派登记配偶没有资格参加非党派初选的封闭式初选尤其明显。
Research suggests that partisans are increasingly avoiding members of the other party—in their choice of neighborhood, social network, even their spouse. Leveraging a national database of voter registration records, we analyze 18 million households in the U.S. We find that three in ten married couples have mismatched party affiliations. We observe the relationship between inter-party marriage and gender, age, and geography. We discuss how the findings bear on key questions of political behavior in the US. Then, we test whether mixed-partisan couples participate less actively in politics. We find that voter turnout is correlated with the party of one’s spouse. A partisan who is married to a co-partisan is more likely to vote. This phenomenon is especially pronounced for partisans in closed primaries, elections in which non-partisan registered spouses are ineligible to participate.