The political influence of peer groups: experimental evidence in the classroom

Camilla F. S. Campos; Shaun Hargreaves Heap; Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon

doi:10.1093/oep/gpw065

The political influence of peer groups: experimental evidence in the classroom

Camilla F. S. Campos, Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

11 Citations (Scopus)

191 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

People who belong to the same group often behave alike. Is this because people with similar preferences naturally associate with each other or because group dynamics cause individual preferences and/or the information that they have to converge? We address this question with a natural experiment. We find no evidence that peer political identification affects individual identification. But we do find that peer engagement affects political identification: a more politically engaged peer group encourages individual political affiliation to move from the extremes to the centre.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	963–985
Journal	Oxford Economic Papers
Volume	69
Issue number	4
Early online date	26 Dec 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpw065
Publication status	Published - Jan 2017

Access to Document

10.1093/oep/gpw065Licence: CC BY-NC

The political influence of peer groups_CAMPOS_PublishedJan2017_GREEN AAM Accepted author manuscript, 520 KB

https://kar.kent.ac.uk/58161/

Cite this

@article{ed735b4b54da466aae56a984e5915a83,

title = "The political influence of peer groups: experimental evidence in the classroom",

abstract = "People who belong to the same group often behave alike. Is this because people with similar preferences naturally associate with each other or because group dynamics cause individual preferences and/or the information that they have to converge? We address this question with a natural experiment. We find no evidence that peer political identification affects individual identification. But we do find that peer engagement affects political identification: a more politically engaged peer group encourages individual political affiliation to move from the extremes to the centre.",

author = "Campos, {Camilla F. S.} and {Hargreaves Heap}, Shaun and {Leite Lopez de Leon}, Fernanda",

year = "2017",

month = jan,

doi = "10.1093/oep/gpw065",

language = "English",

volume = "69",

pages = "963–985",

journal = "Oxford Economic Papers",

issn = "0030-7653",

publisher = "Oxford University Press",

number = "4",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - The political influence of peer groups

T2 - experimental evidence in the classroom

AU - Campos, Camilla F. S.

AU - Hargreaves Heap, Shaun

AU - Leite Lopez de Leon, Fernanda

PY - 2017/1

Y1 - 2017/1

N2 - People who belong to the same group often behave alike. Is this because people with similar preferences naturally associate with each other or because group dynamics cause individual preferences and/or the information that they have to converge? We address this question with a natural experiment. We find no evidence that peer political identification affects individual identification. But we do find that peer engagement affects political identification: a more politically engaged peer group encourages individual political affiliation to move from the extremes to the centre.

AB - People who belong to the same group often behave alike. Is this because people with similar preferences naturally associate with each other or because group dynamics cause individual preferences and/or the information that they have to converge? We address this question with a natural experiment. We find no evidence that peer political identification affects individual identification. But we do find that peer engagement affects political identification: a more politically engaged peer group encourages individual political affiliation to move from the extremes to the centre.

U2 - 10.1093/oep/gpw065

DO - 10.1093/oep/gpw065

M3 - Article

SN - 0030-7653

VL - 69

SP - 963

EP - 985

JO - Oxford Economic Papers

JF - Oxford Economic Papers

IS - 4

ER -

The political influence of peer groups: experimental evidence in the classroom

Abstract

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this