Feed the Church, starve the party? Church-state relations and religious political mobilisation in 21 Catholic-majority countries
This contribution examines the effects of state religion policy on religious political mobilisation, focusing on the case of the Catholic Church in the post-Cold War era. Catholicism remains politically salient in most Catholic-majority societies, but the presence and success of parties that explici...
| Publié dans: | Religion, state & society |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge
[2019]
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Religion, state & society
Année: 2019, Volume: 47, Numéro: 1, Pages: 87-103 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
RAS Round 3 dataset
/ Église catholique
/ Majorité
/ État
/ Partie (droit)
/ Catholique
/ Participation politique
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions CG Christianisme et politique KDB Église catholique romaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Religious parties
B Catholic Church B religion and state dataset B State Religion Policy |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Résumé: | This contribution examines the effects of state religion policy on religious political mobilisation, focusing on the case of the Catholic Church in the post-Cold War era. Catholicism remains politically salient in most Catholic-majority societies, but the presence and success of parties that explicitly mobilise Catholicism in the electoral arena varies enormously. In addition, Catholic-majority countries display a wide variety of institutional arrangements governing the relationship between religion and state. This contribution presents a theoretical framework for analysing the effect of these institutions on the performance of political parties that seek to mobilise religion. Relying on a dataset that covers 137 elections in 21 Catholic-majority countries as well as key measures from the Religion and State (RAS) dataset, this contribution shows that countries with higher levels of state regulation of religion and friendlier religion-state relations are more likely to host parties that mobilise religion; it also suggests that funding for the Catholic Church may constrain such parties. |
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| ISSN: | 1465-3974 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion, state & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2018.1533296 |