Religious Voting in Western Democracies

José Ramón Montero, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,Paolo Segatti, Professor of Political Sociology (retired), Università degli Studi di Milano,Kerman Calvo, Associate Professor of Sociology, Universidad de Salamanca

José Ramón Montero is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Paolo Segatti is a former Professor of Political Sociology at the Università degli Studi di Milano.

Kerman Calvo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universidad de Salamanca.

1. Introduction: Does religious voting really exist in secularized democracies?, Kerman Calvo, Paolo Segatti, and José Ramón Montero
Part I. Setting the scene
2. Conflicts on moral issues: Christian Churches and societal secularization in Western Europe, Karel Dobbelaere
3. Cleavages and divides in voting and political theory, Stefano Bartolini
4. Religious cleavages and religious voting, José Ramón Montero
5. Religious change and church attendance in Western Europe, Ferruccio Biolcati and Cristiano Vezzoni
6. Religiosity and ideology in Western Europe and the United States, Rosa M. Navarrete, Guillermo Cordero, and Jaime Balaguer
7. Comparative religious voting: Mechanisms of politicization in post-cleavage elections, Alberto Sanz, Stefano Camatarri, Paolo Segatti, and José Ramón Montero
Part II. Catholic countries
8. Austria: Developments and determinants of religious voting, Julian Aichholzer, David Johann, and Sylvia Kritzinger
9. Italy: From the religious cleavage to the politics of religious voting, Ferruccio Biolcati, Paolo Segatti, and Cristiano Vezzoni
10. Belgium: Changes in Church involvement, pillar organizations, and voting, Jaak Billiet and Koen Abts
11. Ireland: Religion and politics, Michael Marsh
12. France: The persisting relevance of religious voting, Bruno Cautrès
13. Spain: Religiosity, ideology, and voting, Kerman Calvo, Álvaro Martínez, and José Ramón Montero
14. Portugal: Religiosity, party strategies, and voting, Carlos Jalali
Part III. Mixed countries
15. Germany: Church affiliation, church attendance, and support for Christian Democrats, Martin Elff and Sigrid Roßteutscher
16. The Netherlands: The role of cultural conservatism among voters and party elites, Nan Dirk De Graaf and Giedo Jansen
17. Switzerland: The decline of the religious cleavage, Romain Lachat
Part IV. Protestant countries
18. Britain: The resilience of religion as an electoral divide, James Tilley
19. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: Christian Democratic parties and religious voting, Bernt Aardal and Henrik Oscarsson
Part V. The United States
20. The United States: Religion and political preferences, Magda Giurcanu and Kenneth D. Wald
21. The United States and Europe: The importance of regimes of religion and State, Kenneth D. Wald
Part VI. Conclusions
22. Conclusions: The many facets of religious voting, Paolo Segatti, Kerman Calvo, and José Ramón Montero
References
Index of authors
Index of subjects