Even in these days of the women's liberation movement, the assumption of marital homogeneity of political values is rarely challenged. Wives may be more involved in politics than ever before, and there are a few outstanding examples of families in which the wife is clearly politically dominant. Even so, the assumption is retained that husbands and wives rarely differ politically (Miller, 1970). Yet, in fact, there is very little direct evidence to support or deny couple homogeneity at the mass level.' What evidence does exist consists of questionable inferences from aggregate data showing few sex differences in political attitudes and of data showing that husbands and wives typically support the same political party. Our first task, then, is to provide some evidence of the scope and depth of spouse agreement about political affairs. More than this, however, we also want to delve into the more difficult
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