Partisanship, Voting, and the Dopamine D2 Receptor Gene

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Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts (2010, background): “…individual-level genetic differences in explaining political opinions and behavior is an area of ongoing work (e.g., Alford, Funk, and Hibbing 2005; Dawes and Fowler 2009; Eaves and Hatemi 2008; Fowler, Baker, and Dawes 2008; Fowler and Dawes 2008; Hatemi et al. 2009; Hatemi et al. 2007; Martin et…”
Candidate Genes and Political Behavior (2012, methodology): “…behavior (Fowler and Dawes 2008), “punishing behavior” in an experimental setting (McDermott et al. 2009), partisanship and party identification (Dawes and Fowler 2009), liberal political ideology (Settle et al. 2010), credit card debt (De Neve and Fowler 2010), antisocial personality (DeLisi…”
A Genome-Wide Analysis of Liberal and Conservative Political Attitudes (2011, methodology): “The dopamine system has been implicated in a wide variety of personality and political behaviors, such as partisanship (Dawes and Fowler 2009), liberalism when combined with number of friends (Settle et al. 2010), attachment (Fisher et al. 2002) cognition, attention, working memory, planning,…”
Not so Fast. On Some Bold Neuroscientific Claims Concerning Human Agency (2010, background): “The authors, however, honestly emphasize that they “have only found an association and cannot make any causal claims about relationships between the DRD2 gene and either partisanship or turnout” [37].”