Are political orientations genetically transmitted?

被引:482
作者
Alford, JR [1 ]
Funk, CL
Hibbing, JR
机构
[1] Rice Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Houston, TX 77251 USA
[2] Virginia Commonwealth Univ, L Douglas Wilder Sch Govt & Publ Affiars, Richmond, VA 23298 USA
[3] Univ Nebraska, Dept Polit Sci, Lincoln, NE 68558 USA
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10.1017/S0003055405051579
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
We test the possibility that political attitudes and behaviors are the result of both environmental and genetic factors. Employing standard methodological approaches in behavioral genetics-specifically, comparisons of the differential correlations of the attitudes of monozygotic twins and dizygotic twins-we analyze data drawn from a large sample of twins in the United States, supplemented with findings from twins in Australia. The results indicate that genetics plays an important role in shaping political attitudes and ideologies but a more modest role in forming party identification; as such, they call for finer distinctions in theorizing about the sources of political attitudes. We conclude by urging political scientists to incorporate genetic influences, specifically interactions between genetic heritability and social environment, into models of political attitude,formation.
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页码:153 / 167
页数:15
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