Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?

By J. Alford, C. Funk, John R. Hibbing. American Political Science Review, 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Why Does the Apple Fall Far from the Tree? How Early Political Socialization Prompts Parent-Child Dissimilarity (2013, background): “2 Genetics seem to influence only the presence and strength of partisan attachments (Dawes and Fowler 2009) but not direction (Alford, Funk, and Hibbing 2005; Hatemi et al. 2009).”
The Dating Preferences of Liberals and Conservatives (2013, background): “Without rejecting this avenue of transmission, recent research shows that our political predilections are also heritable (Alford et al. 2005; Eaves et al. 1989; Eaves and Eysenck 1974; Fowler et al. 2008; Hatemi et al. 2010; Martin et al. 1986), and that individuals in long-term relationships tend t”
Intuitive Ethics and Political Orientations: Testing Moral Foundations as a Theory of Political Ideology (2017, background): “…of the causal origins of individual-level variation in ideology, MFT may also provide a coherent theoretical umbrella for a rapidly growing set of empirical studies that find political ideology and political attitudes are heritable and neurobiologically influenced (Alford, Funk, and Hibbing 2005).”
Two Genes Predict Voter Turnout (2008, neutral): “Here we investigate two speciﬁc genes that may contribute to variation in voting behavior.”
Shared Reality, System Justification, and the Relational Basis of Ideological Beliefs (2008, background): “Second, there is the possibility that at least some of the ideological correspondence between parents and their offspring is due to genetic factors such as inherited personality traits that are linked to political predispositions ( Alford, Funk, & Hibbing, 2005 ).”
A Genome-Wide Analysis of Liberal and Conservative Political Attitudes (2011, background): “More recently, political scientists have also adopted a ‘‘partially genetic’’ approach (Alford, Funk, and Hibbing 2005; Fowler, Baker, and Dawes 2008; Hatemi et al. 2009) and using longitudinal and extended pedigree studies further elaborated on the genetic influence for political attitudes (Eaves…”