The origins of party identification and its relationship to political orientations |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Sociology, Brescia University College at Western University, 1285 Western Road, London N6G 1H2, Canada;2. Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany;1. Department of Sociology, Brescia University College at Western University, 1285 Western Road, London N6G 1H2, Canada;2. Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany;1. Institute of Plant Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013 Bern, Switzerland;2. Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland;3. Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands;4. Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Landsdiep 4, 1797 SZ ''t Horntje (Texel), The Netherlands;1. University of Iowa, United States;2. Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Leuven, Belgium;1. Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Chemistry and Material Technology of Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China;2. Department of Culture Heritage and Museology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China;3. Qinshui High Middle School, Jincheng, Shanxi Province 048200, China;1. Radiation Oncology Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome Italy;2. Department of Oncology, Radiation Oncology, University of Turin School of Medicine, Turin, Italy;3. Radiation Oncology Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois – CHUV, Lausanne Switzerland;4. Radiation Oncology Department, Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar-Verona, Italy;5. Radiation Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Camillo-Forlanini, Rome, Italy |
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| Abstract: | An established position, long recognized in the literature, maintains that political party identification (PID) arises mainly from familial socialization and has a major impact on political outlooks and behaviors. An alternative view, also entrenched in the literature, holds that the direction of causation may go the other way, with political orientations influencing PID insofar as individuals seek out parties that match their ideological viewpoints. Here we use univariate and multivariate twin modeling to examine the underlying etiology assumed by those two positions, and introduce a new perspective that may help researchers make sense of PID, political orientations, and the relationships between them. Our findings indicate that: (1) PID is substantially heritable; and (2) there is empirical support for a model in which genetic and environmental factors influence political orientations, which in turn affect PID. |
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| Keywords: | Political party identification Political orientations Political attitudes Heritability Twin study Behaviour genetics |
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