Disentangling the Importance of Psychological Predispositions and Social Constructions in the Organization of American Political Ideology.
Disentangling the Importance of Psychological Predispositions and Social Constructions in the Organization of American Political Ideology.
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理清心理倾向和社会建构在美国政治意识形态组织中的重要性。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00882.x
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发表时间：
2012
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4.6
通讯作者：
Eaves,LindonJ
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作者：
Verhulst,Brad;Hatemi,PeterK;Eaves,LindonJ
美国选民的意识形态偏好既取决于提供当代政治辩论内容的环境条件，也取决于激励人们持有自由或保守政策偏好的内在倾向。在这篇文章中，我们将约斯特、费德里科和纳皮尔的自上而下/自下而上的政治态度形成理论应用于一个遗传信息丰富的人口样本。在此过程中，我们通过将自上而下的路径作为社会环境的函数以及将自下而上的路径作为一组潜在的遗传因素来进一步发展该理论。通过融合心理学、行为遗传学和政治学的见解，我们发现自上而下/自下而上的框架得到了强有力的支持，该框架将政治态度形成的两条独立路径分开，并在每个分析层面确定了政治态度之间不同的关系模式。
Ideological preferences within the American electorate are contingent on both the environmental conditions that provide the content of the contemporary political debate and internal predispositions that motivate people to hold liberal or conservative policy preferences. In this article we apply Jost, Federico, and Napier's top‐down/bottom‐up theory of political attitude formation to a genetically informative population sample. In doing so, we further develop the theory by operationalizing the top‐down pathway to be a function of the social environment and the bottom‐up pathway as a latent set of genetic factors. By merging insights from psychology, behavioral genetics, and political science, we find strong support for the top‐down/bottom‐up framework that segregates the two independent pathways in the formation of political attitudes and identifies a different pattern of relationships between political attitudes at each level of analysis.