Choosing sides: The genetics of why we go with the loudest

Journal of Theoretical Politics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 389-408

  Fazekas, Zoltán ^a   Littvay, Levente ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

behavior genetics; directional voting; partisanship; spatial modeling; twin study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862589810     PISSN: 09516298     EISSN: 14603667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0951629812437750     Document Type: Article

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