OF WHAT RELEVANCE IS PERSONALITY IN THE DETERMINATION OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR
INTRODUCTION Personality is one significant source of individual differences in the way individuals interact with their environments and it affects numerous life outcomes, among which, one might suspect, is political behavior. The mechanisms through which personality operates to affect political behavior are less clear. As a recent article points out,’’effort is needed to strengthen theories regarding the possible significance of personality’’ [Mondak et al, 2010, p. 20]. These authors further suggest that personality can be expected to influence political activity through its effect on other intermediary factors and by interaction with individual and contextual characteristics.