Related: do we think less of Trait X because The Other Team has it, or do we think less of The Other Team because they have Trait X?
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Is it inevitable that the parties in a 2-party system be split along the personality divide we see now (high openness + low conscientiousness vs. low openness + high conscientiousness), or do the party platforms basically determine how the US divvies itself up psychosocially?
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Strangely, I can't tell which party is meant by which description. I can't fit any of the four attributes to either of the main US parties.
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Pretty sure Democrats the former, Republicans the latter.
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To clarify, is your hypothesis that the left's conscientiousness quotient is generally low and the right's is high?
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It's just what the data seem to show
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My theory: plurality voting causes the territorial map occupied by the two major parties. It begins with plurality causing a two-party system via Duverger's law, forcing out alternatives. Once the field is consolidated to two parties, there is no value in political overlap.
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As new political territory is explored (that is, as new areas of live become political), the first major party to act gets to choose a position. The second must take an "opposite" position to maximizing votes—there is no voting value in overlap.
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In Canada, we have a different set of choices. In this study, openness & conscientiousness still maps to liberal/conservative. They also summarize results from Germany & Italy https://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2013/IE.pdf …
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Most people don't vote and may be apolitical, or at the very least disengaged from the two parties. Because of this I think the two parties are a bad way to draw conclusions about psychological trends of the population as a whole.
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Not sure. First, in most of the world the divide is not left/right but more libertarian/populist. If conscientiousness goes with economic views and openness with social views, (thus libertarians are high in both), then in most of the world the relation is also the opposite
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