Religious voting in western democracies / edited by José Ramón Montero, Paolo Segatti and Kerman Calvo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Montero, José R., 1948- editor.

Segatti, Paolo, editor.

Calvo, Kerman, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voting--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Voting.

Voting--Europe, Western.

Voting--United States.

Religion and politics--Europe, Western.

Religion and politics.

Religion and politics--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (737 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the role of religion and religiosity in electoral politics across Western Europe and in the United States. The chapters approach the relationship between religion, religiosity, and electoral behaviour from a variety of different angles and on the basis of a range of comparative datasets.

Contents:

Cover

Titlepage

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

1 Introduction: Does religious voting really exist in secularized democracies?

PART I SETTING THE SCENE

2 Conflicts on moral issues: Christian Churches and societal secularization in Western Europe

3 Cleavages and divides in voting and political theory

4 Religious cleavages and religious voting

5 Religious change and church attendance in Western Europe

6 Religiosity and ideology in Western Europe and the United States

7 Comparative religious voting: Mechanisms of politicization in post-cleavage elections

PART II CATHOLIC COUNTRIES

8 Austria: Developments and determinants of religious voting

9 Italy: From the religious cleavage to the politics of religious voting

10 Belgium: Changes in Church involvement, pillar organizations, and voting

11 Ireland: Religion and politics

12 France: The persisting relevance of religious voting

13 Spain: Religiosity, ideology, and voting

14 Portugal: Religiosity, party strategies, and voting

PART III MIXED COUNTRIES

15 Germany: Church affiliation, church attendance, and support for Christian Democrats

16 The Netherlands: The role of cultural conservatism among voters and party elites

17 Switzerland: The decline of the religious cleavage

PART IV PROTESTANT COUNTRIES

18 Britain: The resilience of religion as an electoral divide

19 Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: Christian Democratic parties and religious voting

PART V THE UNITED STATES

20 The United States: Religion and political preferences

21 The United States and Europe: The importance of regimes of religion and State

PART VI CONCLUSIONS

22 Conclusions: The many facets of religious voting

References

Author Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 20, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-253508-0

0-19-184565-5

0-19-253507-2