Christopher D. Johnston

Open versus Closed (eBook, ePUB)

Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution

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Produktbeschreibung

Debates over redistribution, social insurance, and market regulation are central to American politics. Why do some citizens prefer a large role for government in the economic life of the nation while others wish to limit its reach? In Open versus Closed, the authors argue that these preferences are not always what they seem. They show how deep-seated personality traits underpinning the culture wars over race, immigration, law and order, sexuality, gender roles, and religion shape how citizens think about economics, binding cultural and economic inclinations together in unexpected ways. Integrating insights from both psychology and political science - and twenty years of observational and experimental data - the authors reveal the deeper motivations driving attitudes toward government. They find that for politically active citizens these attitudes are not driven by self-interest, but by a desire to express the traits and cultural commitments that define their identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108155465
• Artikelnr.: 49047231

Autorenporträt

Christopher D. Johnston is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University, North Carolina. He is co-author of The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (with Howard G. Lavine and Marco R. Steenbergen, 2012), which won both the David O. Sears award from the International Society of Political Psychology and the Robert E. Lane award from the American Political Science Association. His peer-reviewed research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology, American Politics Research, and elsewhere.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1. Personality and the foundations of economic preferences
2. The psychology of ideology
3. A dual-pathway model of openness and economic preferences
4. Testing the reversal hypothesis
5. Openness and partisan-ideological sorting
6. Openness and elite influence
7. Political engagement and self-interest
8. Personality and American democracy
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.