This book reconceptualizes how deep-seated personality traits shape citizens' attitudes toward economic redistribution, and what it means for American democracy.

Christopher D. Johnston is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University, North Carolina. He is co-author of The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (with Howard G. Lavine and Marco R. Steenbergen, 2012), which won both the David O. Sears award from the International Society of Political Psychology and the Robert E. Lane award from the American Political Science Association. His peer-reviewed research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology, American Politics Research, and elsewhere.

List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Personality and the foundations of economic preferences; 2. The psychology of ideology; 3. A dual-pathway model of openness and economic preferences; 4. Testing the reversal hypothesis; 5. Openness and partisan-ideological sorting; 6. Openness and elite influence; 7. Political engagement and self-interest; 8. Personality and American democracy; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.