Who’s Right about the Right? : Comparing Competing Explanations of the Link Between White Evangelicals and Conservative Politics in the United States

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Who’s Right about the Right? : Comparing Competing Explanations of the Link Between White Evangelicals and Conservative Politics in the United States Abrutyn, Seth; Brint, Steven G.

Abstract

Using pooled data from the 2000-2004 National Election Studies, we compare the explanatory power of five competing explanations for the links between membership in theologically conservative Protestant denominations and right-of-center political attitudes. These explanations focus, respectively, on: (1) religiosity, (2) moral absolutism, (3) family ideology, (4) class culture, and (5) cultural geography. Moral absolutism is the strongest explanation for conservative political attitudes, both for whites affiliated with theologically conservative Protestant denominations, and for members of other religious traditions.

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Title	Who’s Right about the Right? : Comparing Competing Explanations of the Link Between White Evangelicals and Conservative Politics in the United States
Creator	Abrutyn, Seth; Brint, Steven G.
Date Issued	2010-06-01
Description	Using pooled data from the 2000-2004 National Election Studies, we compare the explanatory power of five competing explanations for the links between membership in theologically conservative Protestant denominations and right-of-center political attitudes. These explanations focus, respectively, on: (1) religiosity, (2) moral absolutism, (3) family ideology, (4) class culture, and (5) cultural geography. Moral absolutism is the strongest explanation for conservative political attitudes, both for whites affiliated with theologically conservative Protestant denominations, and for members of other religious traditions.
Genre	Article; Postprint
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2018-08-30
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0371839
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/67021
Affiliation	Non UBC; Arts, Faculty of; Sociology, Department of
Citation	Brint, Steven, and Seth Abrutyn. 2010. "Who’s Right about the Right? Comparing Competing Explanations of the Link between White Evangelicals and Conservative Politics in the United States." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 49(2):328-350.
Publisher DOI	10.1111/j.1468-5906.2010.01513.x
Peer Review Status	Reviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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