Jacqueline Clemence

Research Associate, Survey Center on American Life

Jacqueline Clemence is a research associate for Politics and Public Opinion Studies at the Survey Center on American Life at the American Enterprise Institute. She works with AEI fellow Daniel A. Cox, senior fellow Karlyn Bowman, and visiting scholar Samuel J. Abrams compiling and analyzing polls on a variety of contemporary political and social issues. Before coming to AEI, Jacqueline worked at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and the United States Attorney’s Office on child abuse and sexual assault prosecution, as well as working with children who escaped human trafficking in Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with a degree in Political Science and minor in Community Action and Social Change.

Latest Research

**If you have a lot of friend, you’re probably more active in politics**

**The benefits of going to a place “where everyone knows your name”**

**Hopes and challenges for community and civic life: Perspectives from the nation and Indiana**

**Socially distant: How our divided social networks explain our politics**

**The urban-rural divide over the coronavirus outbreak**

**Fear, frustration, and faith: Americans respond to the coronavirus outbreak**

**Partisan attachment: How politics is changing dating and relationships in the Trump era**

**The decline of religion in American family life**

**Public views of political compromise and conflict and partisan misperceptions**

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Appearances

Dating in the Trump era: How politics is changing romance | IN 60 SECONDS

Partisan politics of the Trump era have become a part of daily life, often serving as a point of contention in basic social interactions — and new survey results show that it’s affecting our dating lives as well. AEI’s Jacqueline Clemence explains.