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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
[2019]
|
| In: |
Religion, state & society
Year: 2019, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-103 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
RAS Round 3 dataset
/ Catholic church
/ Majority
/ State
/ Party (law)
/ Catholic
/ Political participation
|
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CG Christianity and Politics KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious parties
B Catholic Church B religion and state dataset B State Religion Policy |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1465-3974 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion, state & society
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2018.1533296 |