The Danish political twin study: political traits in Danish twins and the general population.
We compare a recent Danish twin survey on political attitudes and behaviors to a nationally representative survey covering similar topics. We find very similar means and variances for most of our constructed scales of political attitudes and behaviors in the two surveys, although even small differences tend to be statistically significant due to sample size. This suggests that the twin study can be used to make inferences on the heritability of several political traits in the Danish population.
Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark.
Robert
R
Klemmensen
Sara B
SB
Hobolt
Peter T
PT
Dinesen
Axel
A
Skytthe
Asbjørn Sonne
AS
Nørgaard
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003718:Denmark; D005260:Female; D005824:Genetics, Behavioral; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011057:Politics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014429:Twins, Dizygotic / Q000235:genetics; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic / Q000235:genetics