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How much of our political orientation can be attributed to our personalities and our brains? Nicholas Kristof addressed this in his NYT Op-Ed Saturday, and examined the research of two of our authors. We all know that liberals and conservatives are far apart on health care. But in the way their brains work? Even in automatic reflexes, like blinking? Or the way their glands secrete moisture? That’s the suggestion of some recent research. It hints that the roots of political judgments may lie partly in fundamental personality types and even in the hard-wiring of our brains. Researchers have found, for example, that some humans are particularly alert to threats, particularly primed to feel vulnerable and perceive danger. Those people are more likely to be conservatives.
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Via The Huffington Post, Whatley draws on the work of our own Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler to describe some dimensions of the Tea Party Movement: In Authoritarianism & Polarization in American Politics, a revealing work of political science published last year that unfortunately went somewhat unnoticed, Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan D. Weiler describe a specific worldview -- authoritarianism -- which they argue lies at the heart of political polarization in modern American politics.
Read MoreSunday's Book Salon discussion over at FireDogLake featured our own Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, authors of 'Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics.' Thanks to them for the great welcome and even better discussion.
Read MoreJonathan Weiler, co-author of "Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics" appeared in a podcast interview with Salon's Glenn Greenwald.
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Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, authors of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics were interviewed for WUNC's The State of Things.
Read MoreThe New York Times has a front-screen story this morning about Bob Collier, who, according to the Times, was moved to speak out at a recent town hall meeting about his worries concerning health care reform. It's almost too tiresome to point out that Collier is entirely uninformed about the issues. But because he did not articulate this utter nonsense in a "high decibel rant," the Times saw fit to put his version of health care reform on the front page of its newspaper.
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Writing for The Huffington Post, author Jonathan Weiler parses criticisms of Obama's health bill, arguing that the nightmarish scenarios that they imagine under government health care are already happening under our current system.
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