Author: A. Kadir Yildirim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009170740
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The book examines how religious institutional structures affect Islamist and Catholic political parties in the Middle East and Western Europe.
The Politics of Religious Party Change
Author: A. Kadir Yildirim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009170740
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The book examines how religious institutional structures affect Islamist and Catholic political parties in the Middle East and Western Europe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009170740
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The book examines how religious institutional structures affect Islamist and Catholic political parties in the Middle East and Western Europe.
Change They Can't Believe In
Author: Christopher S. Parker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400852315
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
How the political beliefs of Tea Party supporters are connected to far-right social movements Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can’t Believe In offers an alternative argument—that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in American politics that is fueled by a fear that America has changed for the worse. Providing a range of original evidence and rich portraits of party sympathizers as well as activists, Christopher Parker and Matt Barreto show that the perception that America is in danger directly informs how Tea Party supporters think and act. In a new afterword, Parker and Barreto reflect on the Tea Party’s recent initiatives, including the 2013 government shutdown, and evaluate their prospects for the 2016 election.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400852315
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
How the political beliefs of Tea Party supporters are connected to far-right social movements Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can’t Believe In offers an alternative argument—that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in American politics that is fueled by a fear that America has changed for the worse. Providing a range of original evidence and rich portraits of party sympathizers as well as activists, Christopher Parker and Matt Barreto show that the perception that America is in danger directly informs how Tea Party supporters think and act. In a new afterword, Parker and Barreto reflect on the Tea Party’s recent initiatives, including the 2013 government shutdown, and evaluate their prospects for the 2016 election.
Uncivil Agreement
Author: Lilliana Mason
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652468X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The psychology behind political partisanship: “The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself.” —Ezra Klein, Vox Political polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization rooted in social identity, and it is growing. The campaign and election of Donald Trump laid bare this fact of the American electorate, its successful rhetoric of “us versus them” tapping into a powerful current of anger and resentment. With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties. She argues that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Even when Democrats and Republicans can agree on policy outcomes, they tend to view one other with distrust and to work for party victory over all else. Although the polarizing effects of social divisions have simplified our electoral choices and increased political engagement, they have not been a force that is, on balance, helpful for American democracy. Bringing together theory from political science and social psychology, Uncivil Agreement clearly describes this increasingly “social” type of polarization, and adds much to our understanding of contemporary politics.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652468X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The psychology behind political partisanship: “The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself.” —Ezra Klein, Vox Political polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization rooted in social identity, and it is growing. The campaign and election of Donald Trump laid bare this fact of the American electorate, its successful rhetoric of “us versus them” tapping into a powerful current of anger and resentment. With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties. She argues that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Even when Democrats and Republicans can agree on policy outcomes, they tend to view one other with distrust and to work for party victory over all else. Although the polarizing effects of social divisions have simplified our electoral choices and increased political engagement, they have not been a force that is, on balance, helpful for American democracy. Bringing together theory from political science and social psychology, Uncivil Agreement clearly describes this increasingly “social” type of polarization, and adds much to our understanding of contemporary politics.
The Great Divide
Author: Geoffrey Layman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231120586
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231120586
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
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.
The Politics of Religious Party Change
Author: A. Kadir Yildirim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009186507
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The Politics of Religious Party Change examines the ideological change and secularization of religious political parties and asks: when and why do religious parties become less anti-system? In a comparative analysis, the book traces the striking similarities in the historical origins of Islamist and Catholic parties in the Middle East and Western Europe, chronicles their conflicts with existing religious authorities, and analyzes the subsequently divergent trajectories of Islamist and Catholic parties. In examining how religious institutional structures affect the actions of religious parties in electoral politics, the book finds that centralized and hierarchical religious authority structures - such as the Vatican - incentivize religious parties to move in more pro-system, secular, and democratic directions. By contrast, less centralized religious authority structures - such as in Sunni Islam - create more permissive environments for religious parties to be anti-system and more prone to freely-formed parties and hybrid party movements.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009186507
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The Politics of Religious Party Change examines the ideological change and secularization of religious political parties and asks: when and why do religious parties become less anti-system? In a comparative analysis, the book traces the striking similarities in the historical origins of Islamist and Catholic parties in the Middle East and Western Europe, chronicles their conflicts with existing religious authorities, and analyzes the subsequently divergent trajectories of Islamist and Catholic parties. In examining how religious institutional structures affect the actions of religious parties in electoral politics, the book finds that centralized and hierarchical religious authority structures - such as the Vatican - incentivize religious parties to move in more pro-system, secular, and democratic directions. By contrast, less centralized religious authority structures - such as in Sunni Islam - create more permissive environments for religious parties to be anti-system and more prone to freely-formed parties and hybrid party movements.
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties
Author: Vineeta Yadav
Publisher:
ISBN: 019754536X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Religious parties are increasingly common in all parts of the world. Their rise in Muslim-majority countries has been particularly prominent as they increasingly participate in elections, win legislative seats and join governments. Since they are often founded on orthodox principles that are inconsistent with liberal democracy, the consequences of their rise and success for the prospects of liberal democratic values and practices has inspired much heated debate and discussion. This book considers a question that has been central in these debates: will the rise and success of religious parties lead to declines in the civil liberties of their citizens?
Publisher:
ISBN: 019754536X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Religious parties are increasingly common in all parts of the world. Their rise in Muslim-majority countries has been particularly prominent as they increasingly participate in elections, win legislative seats and join governments. Since they are often founded on orthodox principles that are inconsistent with liberal democracy, the consequences of their rise and success for the prospects of liberal democratic values and practices has inspired much heated debate and discussion. This book considers a question that has been central in these debates: will the rise and success of religious parties lead to declines in the civil liberties of their citizens?
Religion and Brazilian Democracy
Author: Amy Erica Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108482112
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Evangelical and Catholic groups are transforming Brazilian politics. This book asks why, and what the consequences are for democracy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108482112
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Evangelical and Catholic groups are transforming Brazilian politics. This book asks why, and what the consequences are for democracy.
Unearthly Powers
Author: Alan Strathern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108477143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108477143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.
Party Position Change in American Politics
Author: David Karol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521517168
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In this book David Karol explains important variations in party position change, enhancing our understanding of parties, interest groups, and representation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521517168
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In this book David Karol explains important variations in party position change, enhancing our understanding of parties, interest groups, and representation.
Religious Convictions and Political Choice
Author: Kent Greenawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195067797
Category : Religion and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? For example, are ordinary citizens or legislators doing something wrong when they consciously allow their decisions respecting abortion laws to be determined by their religious views? Despite its intense contemporary relevance, the full dimensions of this issue have until now not been thoroughly examined. Religious Convictions and Political Choice represents the first attempt to fill this gap. Beginning with an account of the basic premises of our liberal democracy, Greenawalt moves to a comparison between rational secular grounds of decision and grounds based on religious convictions. He discusses particular issues such as animal rights and abortion, showing how religious convictions can bear on an individual's decisions about them, and inquires whether reliance on such convictions is compatible with liberal democratic premises. In conclusion, he argues that citizens cannot be expected to rely exclusively on rational, secular grounds.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195067797
Category : Religion and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? For example, are ordinary citizens or legislators doing something wrong when they consciously allow their decisions respecting abortion laws to be determined by their religious views? Despite its intense contemporary relevance, the full dimensions of this issue have until now not been thoroughly examined. Religious Convictions and Political Choice represents the first attempt to fill this gap. Beginning with an account of the basic premises of our liberal democracy, Greenawalt moves to a comparison between rational secular grounds of decision and grounds based on religious convictions. He discusses particular issues such as animal rights and abortion, showing how religious convictions can bear on an individual's decisions about them, and inquires whether reliance on such convictions is compatible with liberal democratic premises. In conclusion, he argues that citizens cannot be expected to rely exclusively on rational, secular grounds.