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This paper studies how the intergenerational transmission of political preferences shapes citizens’ political involvement. I develop a two-period model in which parents choose a costly level of transmission effort, and children decide their level of political involvement. Higher transmission effort increases children’s incentives to choose a high level of involvement. Each child is then randomly paired with another child and incurs a cost when their political preferences differ, with this cost being larger when both are highly involved. The model shows how parental influence links the evolution of political preferences with political involvement.