Christopher D. Johnston - Open Versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution

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DOI: 10.1017/9781316341452

Christopher D. Johnston, Howard G. Lavine, and Christopher M. Federico 2017

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CJ: For Amy and Hannah

HL: For my fathers, Ira S. Somerson and Edward W. Lavine

CF: For my mother

Were born to be righteous, but we have to learn what, exactly, people like us should be righteous about.

Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind (2012: 26)

We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are.

The Talmud

This book has taken a winding path, and we owe a debt of gratitude to a number of people who have directly and indirectly contributed to it. First, a special thank you to Stanley Feldman, who was the primary advisor on Johnstons dissertation. We would also like to thank our home departments at Duke and Minnesota, which have provided both intellectual nourishment and financial resources that enabled us to complete our research and writing. From Duke, special thanks go to Sunshine Hillygus and John Aldrich for help in obtaining data used in two chapters. From Minnesota, we are grateful to our colleagues in political psychology Gene Borgida, Paul Goren, Joanne Miller, Dan Myers, and Wendy Rahn who provide a wise and steady sounding board for all of our ideas.

We are also grateful to Jamie Druckman and Jeremy Freese for administering the National Science Foundationfunded Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, and for their help with the study on libertarianism reported in Smith, Paul Sniderman, and Chuck Taber for their path-breaking work on personality, partisanship, motivated reasoning, and the biological bases of political attitudes. To the extent we are successful, it is due in large part to what we have learned from these individuals. All failures, errors, and omissions, of course, are ours alone.

On a more personal note, Johnston would like to thank Amy Lee Johnston for being his best friend, partner, and travel companion, for the sacrifices she has made and continues to make for his career, and for Hannah, who is perfect. He would also like to thank his immediate and extended families for their love and support. To mom Eileen, and siblings Erin, Jeff, Cory, and Sarah; and to Rita, Chuck, Mark, Sharon, Brendan, Logan, Carey, and Casey: thank you for all you do for Amy, Hannah, and me.

Lavine thanks the Carlson Family Foundation, as well as the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota for financial support during the writing of this book. He also thanks his former chairs, Bud Duvall and Joan Tronto, who provided invaluable professional and personal counsel. Finally, Lavine thanks his children, Seamus and Finnian Lavine, for providing a daily dose of wonderment, joy, challenge, and love, and his wife, JaneAnne Murray, who gives so much to so many.

Federico thanks his parents, Valerie Federico and the late Kenneth Federico. Much of his success is due to the support, encouragement, and guidance they have provided. Chris also thanks his wife, Penny Nichol, for her love and her willingness to share her quantitative expertise with him; and his sons, Paul and Adam, for their patience while he was occupied with this project. In addition, he thanks his many wonderful students and coauthors, in particular Grace Deason, Damla Ergun, Emily Fisher, Corrie Hunt, and Michal Reifen Tagar, for their contributions to earlier work that influenced some of the ideas we develop in this book. Finally, he would be remiss not to thank Mark Edward Smith, David Robert Jones, and James Newell Osterberg Jr. for creative energy and inspiration over the years.