Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics

Leege, David C.; Kellstedt, Lyman A.

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“…Many studies find that religion affects partisan identification, electoral participation/decisions, and personal opinions on social and political issues in the U.S. (Campbell, 2007;Denton, 2005;Gilderbloom and Markham, 1995;Green, Rozell, and Wilcox, 2003;Guth, et al, 2006;Kohut, et al, 2000;Langer and Cohen, 2005;Layman, 2001; Leege and Kellstedt, 1993;Smidt, Kellstedt, and Guth, 2009a;Wilcox, 1996).…”

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Religion and regionalism : congregants, culture and city-county consolidation in Louisville, Kentucky.

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“…Since Max Weber's work on the Protestant Ethic (1904 []), several studies have examined the issue of whether religion influences human behavior (Iannaccone, ; Kumar, Page, & Spalt, ; Stulz & Williamson, ). Fastnow, Grant, and Rudolph (), Jelen (), and Leege and Kellstedt () have suggested that religion has a significant impact on political behaviors, such as voting. Barkan () and Jeynes () found that religion influences people's attitudes toward extramarital childbirth, as well as decisions to engage in or abstain from premarital intercourse.…”

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Pray local and act global? Christian religiosity in the U.S. and human rights

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2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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This study examines the influence of Christian religion on corporate decisions related to human rights in the United States. Specifically, it examines the empirical association between a company's human rights practices and the Christian religiosity in its local community, as well as individual CEO religiosity in the United States, both of which have not been tested in prior studies. Employing a large sample from the United States, we find a congruent association between the "human rights friendly" practices of a company and the Christian religiosity of the local community. This novel finding is robust to a diverse set of tests. In addition, we find that the association between Christian religiosity in the United States and human rights is more significant in reducing human rights concerns, than it improves human rights strengths.This study interprets these results as upholding the religious morality hypothesis, namely, that companies located in areas with higher religiosity are likely to engage in more human rights-friendly practices, and the United States. Christians consider religion as an influencing factor that encourages managers to embrace human rights.Furthermore, this study finds that individual religious managers tend toward more human rights-friendly practices, supporting our religious manager hypothesis.

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“…Following Max Weber ( [1904]), numerous studies have asked whether religion has a significant impact on human behavior. Religion has been shown to have a strong influence on political attitudes and political behaviors such as voting (Leege and Kellstedt, ; Jelen, ; Fastnow et al ., ). Religion affects attitudes toward premarital childbirth and decisions to engage in or abstain from premarital intercourse (Jeynes, ).…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Religion, and Firm Risk

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2017

Asia-Pac J of Fin Stud

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In this article, we examine the empirical influence of the combined effect of Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the degree of local community religiosity on firm risk by investigating their unidirectional and endogenous effects. Employing a large US sample, we find an inverse association between CSR-religiosity and firm risk after controlling for various firm characteristics. Also, after mitigating endogeneity bias, we still find a negative association between CSR-local community religiosity and firm risk. We interpret these results to support the social license to operate (SLO) explanation: the lower the level of firm risk, the higher the level of SLO.

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Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics

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Religion and regionalism : congregants, culture and city-county consolidation in Louisville, Kentucky.

Religion and regionalism : congregants, culture and city-county consolidation in Louisville, Kentucky.

Pray local and act global? Christian religiosity in the U.S. and human rights

Corporate Social Responsibility, Religion, and Firm Risk

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