ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the soundness of the branch of behavioural genetics, mostly based on twin studies. It explores the political consequences of genopolitics when used to predict and influence political behaviour. The chapter focuses on the emerging field of 'genopolitics', a discipline that has rightly been labelled 'a new multi-disciplinary sociobiology', and reflects on its potentially devastating consequences for both political science and politics in general. One of the central objectives of genopolitics is to demonstrate that their genetic approach to politics is able to explain crucial political phenomena, such as voter turnout or political preferences, which a 'culturalist' approach would be unable to explain. Rational-choice theory assumes that political opinions and decisions are the result of rational considerations. Genopolitics is not only an attempt at the genetization of politics, but also a powerful biopolitical instrument, because the naturalization of political situations aims at immunizing current power relations against all manners of social critique.
