Measuring church-state-relations: a comparative analysis of new indices

Traunmüller, Richard

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“…The data are based on the coding scheme of the second round of the RAS (Fox, 2008(Fox, , 2011. The RAS indices are currently the most comprehensive and convincing measures of government regulation of religion (Traunmüller, 2012), and the new data set provides these measures for the Swiss subnational level for the period 2003-2011.…”

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How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison

Helbling

Traunmüller

2015

SSRN Journal

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How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison

Helbling

Traunmüller

2015

SSRN Journal

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“… See for a recent overview, comparison and evaluation of different scales of church‐state relationships, including the one used in this paper: Traunmüller (). We chose an adapted Chaves–Cann scale since it allows us to conceptualize and measure the central church‐state variation in Switzerland in a very straightforward way.…”

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Does disestablishment lead to religious vitality? The case of Switzerland

Stolz

Chaves

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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Economists and sociologists of religion have claimed that religious establishment dampens religious vitality, leading to lower recruitment efforts, low attendance, declining membership within established congregations, and the 'crowding out' of non-established congregations. Conversely, these authors have told us, disestablishment will lead to more religious vitality. Remarkably, even though these claims rest on the connection between establishment and the organizational and membership behaviour of local religious congregations, no research has directly examined that connection. We use the 2008 Swiss National Congregations Study as well as historical data to assess the effect of different levels of religious establishment on both established and non-established congregations. We find that established congregations do indeed show less religious vitality than non-established congregations. Contrary to the claims of the economic literature, however, these covariations are not caused by differences in religious establishment on the cantonal level. Both our quantitative and historical analyses show that disestablishment has not led to religious vitality for either established or non-established congregations. The only clear effect of disestablishment is a dramatic decrease of income for established congregations. Based on quantitative and historical evidence, we suggest that differences between established and non-established congregations are produced by differences in religious tradition and immigration flows, not by differences in levels of establishment.

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“…According to Munck and Verkuilen (), the choice of aggregation level is therefore the first task analysts must undertake in regard to aggregation. The second task is the selection of aggregation rules and the third task is documentation of aggregation rules and the aggregated data (Munck and Verkuilen ; Traunmüller , 15; Table ).…”

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“…They identify three sequential and interrelated stages of the index‐building process that need to be evaluated: (1) Conceptualization, (2) Measurement, and (3) Aggregation, each of which has a number of corresponding substeps. Munck and Verkuilen's () three‐step assessment process has turned out to be very useful for assessing policy indices in fields as different as democracy (Müller and Pickel ) or state–church regimes (Traunmüller ) . As we believe that a sound methodology of index building should be used across thematic fields and disciplines we chose the framework of Munck and Verkuilen for this analysis of the measurement of immigration policy.…”

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Conceptualizing and Measuring Immigration Policies: A Comparative Perspective

Bjerre

Helbling

Römer

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International Migration Review

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In the last decade, researchers have developed many innovative ideas for the construction of indices measuring immigration policies. Methodological considerations have, however, been largely absent from the discussion. To close this gap, this paper investigates the characteristics of existing indices by critically comparing and discussing them. We start by providing a definition of immigration policy which may serve as a benchmark when assessing the indices. By means of the analytical framework developed by Munck and Verkuilen (2002), which we adapt and customize for our analysis, we then evaluate the conceptualization, measurement, and aggregation, as well as the empirical scope of thirteen immigration policy indices. We discuss methodological strengths and weaknesses of the indices, how these affect the research questions that can be answered and what the next steps in index building within the field of immigration policy should be.

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Measuring church-state-relations: a comparative analysis of new indices

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison

How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison

Does disestablishment lead to religious vitality? The case of Switzerland

Conceptualizing and Measuring Immigration Policies: A Comparative Perspective

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