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James H Fowler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Partisanship voting and the dopamine d2 receptor gene
The Journal of Politics, 2009Co-Authors: Christopher T Dawes, James H FowlerAbstract:Previous studies have found that both political orientations (Alford, Funk, and Hibbing 2005) and voting behavior (Fowler, Baker, and Dawes 2008; Fowler and Dawes 2008) are significantly heritable. In this article we study genetic variation in another important political behavior: partisan attachment. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we show that individuals with the A2 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor gene are significantly more likely to identify as a partisan than those with the A1 allele. Further, we find that this gene's association with Partisanship also mediates an indirect association between the A2 allele and voter turnout. These results are the first to identify a specific gene that may be partly responsible for the tendency to join political groups, and they may help to explain correlation in parent and child Partisanship and the persistence of partisan behavior over time.
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Partisanship voting and the dopamine d2 receptor gene
Social Science Research Network, 2008Co-Authors: Christopher T Dawes, James H FowlerAbstract:Previous studies have found that both political orientations (Alford, Funk & Hibbing 2005) and voting behavior (Fowler, Baker & Dawes 2007, Fowler & Dawes 2007) are significantly heritable. In this article we study genetic variation in another important political behavior: partisan attachment. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we show that individuals with the A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor gene are significantly less likely to identify as a partisan than those with the A2 allele. Further, we find that this gene's association with Partisanship also mediates an indirect association between the A1 allele and voter abstention. These results are the first to identify a specific gene that may be responsible for the tendency to join political groups, and they may help to explain correlation in parent and child Partisanship and the persistence of partisan behavior over time.
Christopher T Dawes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Partisanship voting and the dopamine d2 receptor gene
The Journal of Politics, 2009Co-Authors: Christopher T Dawes, James H FowlerAbstract:Previous studies have found that both political orientations (Alford, Funk, and Hibbing 2005) and voting behavior (Fowler, Baker, and Dawes 2008; Fowler and Dawes 2008) are significantly heritable. In this article we study genetic variation in another important political behavior: partisan attachment. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we show that individuals with the A2 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor gene are significantly more likely to identify as a partisan than those with the A1 allele. Further, we find that this gene's association with Partisanship also mediates an indirect association between the A2 allele and voter turnout. These results are the first to identify a specific gene that may be partly responsible for the tendency to join political groups, and they may help to explain correlation in parent and child Partisanship and the persistence of partisan behavior over time.
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Partisanship voting and the dopamine d2 receptor gene
Social Science Research Network, 2008Co-Authors: Christopher T Dawes, James H FowlerAbstract:Previous studies have found that both political orientations (Alford, Funk & Hibbing 2005) and voting behavior (Fowler, Baker & Dawes 2007, Fowler & Dawes 2007) are significantly heritable. In this article we study genetic variation in another important political behavior: partisan attachment. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we show that individuals with the A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor gene are significantly less likely to identify as a partisan than those with the A2 allele. Further, we find that this gene's association with Partisanship also mediates an indirect association between the A1 allele and voter abstention. These results are the first to identify a specific gene that may be responsible for the tendency to join political groups, and they may help to explain correlation in parent and child Partisanship and the persistence of partisan behavior over time.
Edward B Foley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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due process fair play and excessive Partisanship a new principle for judicial review of election laws
University of Chicago Law Review, 2016Co-Authors: Edward B FoleyAbstract:American democracy is plagued by excessive Partisanship, and yet constitutional law thus far has been incapable of redressing this ill. Gerrymandering is one clear example: the partisan distortion of legislative districts has accelerated dramatically in the last several decades, yet the federal judiciary has been unable to develop a constitutional standard for curbing this egregiously anti-democratic behavior. Likewise, state legislatures around the country in the last decade have been enacting statutes to cut back voting opportunities, and federal courts have struggled with articulating appropriate standards for evaluating the constitutionality of these rollback laws. A main reason for this struggle has been the judicial unwillingness to tackle directly the transparently partisan motives underlying these legislative cutbacks in voting opportunities. This judicial difficulty with curtailing excessive Partisanship stems from an attempt to rely on equal protection as the relevant constitutional standard for judicial review of election laws. Invocation of equal protection is understandable given the initial success of Warren Court precedents, like Reynolds v. Sims and Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, in using equal protection to protect equal voting rights. But as the courts have subsequently discovered, equal protection is ill-suited to the problems of gerrymander or legislation that cuts back voting opportunities for all voters. This Article offers a previously undeveloped alternative to equal protection: due process. In a wide range of areas, including civil and criminal procedure, the Supreme Court has long recognized that due process encompasses a principle of fair play. This fair play principle, well understood to apply in society to athletic competition, is suitable in the domain of politics for constraining excessive Partisanship in electoral competition. In fact, the history of the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification reveals that this fair play principle played an essential role in constraining excessive Partisanship that threatened to destabilize the Republic at the time the amendment’s ratification was under consideration in Congress. Once the significance of this history is recognized, the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause is properly construed as constraining partisan overreaching that currently threatens to undermine American democracy. In this way, the federal judiciary appropriately can invoke due process to directly redress excessive Partisanship in the form of gerrymandering or rollbacks in voting opportunities.
Alan S Gerber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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party affiliation Partisanship and political beliefs a field experiment
American Political Science Review, 2010Co-Authors: Alan S Gerber, Gregory A Huber, Ebonya L WashingtonAbstract:Partisanship is strongly correlated with attitudes and behavior, but it is unclear from this pattern whether partisan identity has a causal effect on political behavior and attitudes. We report the results of a field experiment that investigates the causal effect of party identification. Prior to the February 2008 Connecticut presidential primary, researchers sent a mailing to a random sample of unaffiliated registered voters who, in a pretreatment survey, leaned toward a political party. The mailing informed the subjects that only voters registered with a party were able to participate in the upcoming presidential primary. Subjects were surveyed again in June 2008. Comparing posttreatment survey responses to subjects’ baseline survey responses, we find that those reminded of the need to register with a party were more likely to identify with a party and showed stronger Partisanship. Further, we find that the treatment group also demonstrated greater concordance than the control group between their pretreatment latent Partisanship and their posttreatment reported voting behavior and intentions and evaluations of partisan figures. Thus, our treatment, which appears to have caused a strengthening of partisan identity, also appears to have caused a shift in subjects’ candidate preferences and evaluations of salient political figures. This finding is consistent with the claim that Partisanship is an active force changing how citizens behave in and perceive the political world.
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party affiliation Partisanship and political beliefs a field experiment
Research Papers in Economics, 2009Co-Authors: Alan S Gerber, Gregory A Huber, Ebonya L WashingtonAbstract:Political Partisanship is strongly correlated with attitudes and behavior, but it is unclear from this pattern whether partisan identity has a causal effect on political behavior and attitudes. We report the results of a field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of party identification. Prior to the February 2008 Connecticut presidential primary, researchers sent a mailing to a random sample of unaffiliated registered voters informing them of the need to register in order to participate in the upcoming primary. Comparing post-treatment survey responses to subjects' baseline survey responses, we find that those informed of the need to register with a party were more likely to affiliate with a party and subsequently showed stronger Partisanship. Further, we find that the treatment group also demonstrated greater concordance than the control group between their pre-treatment latent Partisanship and their post-treatment reported voting behavior and intentions and evaluations of partisan figures. Thus our treatment, which caused a strengthening of partisan identity, also caused a shift in subjects' candidate preferences and evaluations of salient political figures. This finding is consistent with the claim that Partisanship is an active force changing how citizens behave in and perceive the political world.
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Partisanship and economic behavior do partisan differences in economic forecasts predict real economic behavior
American Political Science Review, 2009Co-Authors: Alan S Gerber, Gregory A HuberAbstract:Survey data regularly show that assessments of current and expected future economic performance are more positive when a respondent's Partisanship matches that of the president. To determine if this is a survey artifact or something deeper, we investigate whether Partisanship is associated with behavioral differences in economic decisions. We construct a new data set of county-level quarterly taxable sales to examine the effect of Partisanship on consumption. Consumption change following a presidential election is correlated with a county's partisan complexion, a result consistent with partisans acting outside the domain of politics in accordance with the opinions they express in surveys. These results support an expansive view of the role of Partisanship in mass politics and help validate surveys as a method for studying political behavior.
Gregory A Huber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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party affiliation Partisanship and political beliefs a field experiment
American Political Science Review, 2010Co-Authors: Alan S Gerber, Gregory A Huber, Ebonya L WashingtonAbstract:Partisanship is strongly correlated with attitudes and behavior, but it is unclear from this pattern whether partisan identity has a causal effect on political behavior and attitudes. We report the results of a field experiment that investigates the causal effect of party identification. Prior to the February 2008 Connecticut presidential primary, researchers sent a mailing to a random sample of unaffiliated registered voters who, in a pretreatment survey, leaned toward a political party. The mailing informed the subjects that only voters registered with a party were able to participate in the upcoming presidential primary. Subjects were surveyed again in June 2008. Comparing posttreatment survey responses to subjects’ baseline survey responses, we find that those reminded of the need to register with a party were more likely to identify with a party and showed stronger Partisanship. Further, we find that the treatment group also demonstrated greater concordance than the control group between their pretreatment latent Partisanship and their posttreatment reported voting behavior and intentions and evaluations of partisan figures. Thus, our treatment, which appears to have caused a strengthening of partisan identity, also appears to have caused a shift in subjects’ candidate preferences and evaluations of salient political figures. This finding is consistent with the claim that Partisanship is an active force changing how citizens behave in and perceive the political world.
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party affiliation Partisanship and political beliefs a field experiment
Research Papers in Economics, 2009Co-Authors: Alan S Gerber, Gregory A Huber, Ebonya L WashingtonAbstract:Political Partisanship is strongly correlated with attitudes and behavior, but it is unclear from this pattern whether partisan identity has a causal effect on political behavior and attitudes. We report the results of a field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of party identification. Prior to the February 2008 Connecticut presidential primary, researchers sent a mailing to a random sample of unaffiliated registered voters informing them of the need to register in order to participate in the upcoming primary. Comparing post-treatment survey responses to subjects' baseline survey responses, we find that those informed of the need to register with a party were more likely to affiliate with a party and subsequently showed stronger Partisanship. Further, we find that the treatment group also demonstrated greater concordance than the control group between their pre-treatment latent Partisanship and their post-treatment reported voting behavior and intentions and evaluations of partisan figures. Thus our treatment, which caused a strengthening of partisan identity, also caused a shift in subjects' candidate preferences and evaluations of salient political figures. This finding is consistent with the claim that Partisanship is an active force changing how citizens behave in and perceive the political world.
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Partisanship and economic behavior do partisan differences in economic forecasts predict real economic behavior
American Political Science Review, 2009Co-Authors: Alan S Gerber, Gregory A HuberAbstract:Survey data regularly show that assessments of current and expected future economic performance are more positive when a respondent's Partisanship matches that of the president. To determine if this is a survey artifact or something deeper, we investigate whether Partisanship is associated with behavioral differences in economic decisions. We construct a new data set of county-level quarterly taxable sales to examine the effect of Partisanship on consumption. Consumption change following a presidential election is correlated with a county's partisan complexion, a result consistent with partisans acting outside the domain of politics in accordance with the opinions they express in surveys. These results support an expansive view of the role of Partisanship in mass politics and help validate surveys as a method for studying political behavior.