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The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics
Geoffrey Layman
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Description for The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics
Hardback. Employing a sizeable collection of data on party members, activists, and elites, Geoffrey Layman examines the role of religion in the Democratic and Republican parties, and the ways in which religion has influenced the political process from the early 1960s through the late 1990s. Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics into the 21st Century. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HRA; JPH; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
How did the Christian Right come to predominate in the Republican Party? Why, on the other hand, do secular and religiously liberal beliefs largely prevail in the Democratic Party? Our understanding of the rift between the Democratic and Republican parties-a rift in many ways fueled by religious beliefs-requires an analysis of the entire spectrum of religious and nonreligious players in the American political process and how their influence has evolved over a long period of time. Employing a sizeable collection of data on party members, activists, and elites, Geoffrey Layman examines the role of religion in the Democratic and Republican ... Read more
How did the Christian Right come to predominate in the Republican Party? Why, on the other hand, do secular and religiously liberal beliefs largely prevail in the Democratic Party? Our understanding of the rift between the Democratic and Republican parties-a rift in many ways fueled by religious beliefs-requires an analysis of the entire spectrum of religious and nonreligious players in the American political process and how their influence has evolved over a long period of time. Employing a sizeable collection of data on party members, activists, and elites, Geoffrey Layman examines the role of religion in the Democratic and Republican ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics into the 21st Century
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231120586
SKU
V9780231120586
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About Geoffrey Layman
Geoffrey Layman is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He has published numerous articles on religion and American politics in such journals as Political Behavior, American Politics Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Politics, and Public Opinion Quarterly.
Reviews for The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics
Layman's impressive effort is at this point the authoritative source on religion and contemporary party politics... An excellent account... which will be indispenable as religion continues to command the attention of political scientists. American Politics