The genetics of politics: discovery, challenges, and progress

Hatemi, Peter K.; McDermott, Rose

doi:10.1016/j.tig.2012.07.004

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“…Several recent reviews of the genetics of politics provide an overview of the scope and findings within the field [23][24][25][26]. The earliest work studying the genetic foundations of political participation focused on index measures of participatory acts, emphasizing the act of voting.…”

Section: Theoretical and Empirical Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

Genes, psychological traits and civic engagement

Dawes

Settle

Loewen

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 13 to a theme issue 'Solving the puzzle of collective action through inter-individual differences: evidence from primates and humans'. Civic engagement is a classic example of a collective action problem: while civic participation improves life in the community as a whole, it is individually costly and thus there is an incentive to free ride on the actions of others. Yet, we observe significant inter-individual variation in the degree to which people are in fact civically engaged. Early accounts reconciling the theoretical prediction with empirical reality focused either on variation in individuals' material resources or their attitudes, but recent work has turned to genetic differences between individuals. We show an underlying genetic contribution to an index of civic engagement (0.41), as well as for the individual acts of engagement of volunteering for community or public service activities (0.33), regularly contributing to charitable causes (0.28) and voting in elections (0.27). There are closer genetic relationships between donating and the other two activities; volunteering and voting are not genetically correlated. Further, we show that most of the correlation between civic engagement and both positive emotionality and verbal IQ can be attributed to genes that affect both traits. These results enrich our understanding of the way in which genetic variation may influence the wide range of collective action problems that individuals face in modern community life.

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Section: Theoretical and Empirical Evidencementioning

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Genes, psychological traits and civic engagement

Dawes

Settle

Loewen

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…A konzervativizmus biológiai hátterének kutatása egy átfogóbb tudományos tö-rekvésbe illeszkedik, amelynek célja a biológia politikatudományba való integrálá-sa (HATEMI és MCDERMOTT, 2012;ALFRED és HIBBING, 2008). Ez a törekvés egy még átfogóbb tendencia részét képezi, amelynek lényege a biológiai nézőpontok társadalomtudományokba való integrálása.…”

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A konzervativizmus kutatásának hat évtizede: Adornótól a biopolitikáig – Kritikai tanulmány

Szokolszky¹

2015

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“…This research is summarized by Hatemi and McDermott (2012) in a review paper exploring the history, methods, findings, and implications of this work, as well as the academic collaborations and clashes that have arisen. A key point in their review is that:…”

Section: Twin Research On Political Behaviormentioning

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“…The within-pair social interactions and other factors that placed all these twins on different political trajectories would be important to discover. Hatemi and McDermott (2012) note both the power and pitfalls of the classic twin design. The twin method's explanatory power derives from the simple contrast of genetically identical and non-identical twin pairs.…”

Section: Twin Research On Political Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on Twin Relationships: Twins Reared Apart and Twins of Opposite Sex / Research Reviews: Second Language Acquisition; Twin Research on Political Behavior; Twinning Rate in Cândido Godói / Human Interest: Twin ‘Cousins’ Separated at Birth; Chinese Quadruplets; Genetic Testing; KÀ (Cirque du Soleil)

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2012

Twin Res Hum Genet

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The complexities of twin relationships posed by separate rearing and by opposite sex are considered. Unusual cases may highlight unique social-interactional processes and outcomes occurring in these pairs. Research reviews include recent twin studies on second language acquisition, political behavior, and multiple birth rates. Items of more general interest include twin 'cousins' reared apart, indistinguishable monozygotic quadruplets, a genetic testing dilemma, and a performance about separated twins.

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The genetics of politics: discovery, challenges, and progress

Cited by 151 publications

References 77 publications

Genes, psychological traits and civic engagement

Genes, psychological traits and civic engagement

A konzervativizmus kutatásának hat évtizede: Adornótól a biopolitikáig – Kritikai tanulmány

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