‘Religion at the European Parliament’: purposes, scope and limits of a survey on the religious beliefs of MEPs

Forêt, François

doi:10.1080/09637494.2014.950909

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“…From a macro perspective, one assesses the role of societies' confessional heritage in the adoption of restrictive/permissive morality policies, or the role of state-church relations' impact on morality policy variations. 1 From a cultural point of view, religion plays a role as a collective social universe rooted in heritage and intertwined with national identity (Foret 2014a). Scholars show that Catholic societies generally adopt more conservative morality policies than their Protestant counterparts (Fink 2008;1645;Minkenberg 2002, 236).…”

Section: Morality Politics: Investigating Religion and Politics At Multiple Levelsmentioning

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Morality politics in the European parliament. A qualitative insight into MEPs’ voting behaviour on abortion and human embryonic stem cell research

Mondo

2018

Journal of European Integration

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The literature on morality politics is well-documented, but has mostly taken place at the national level. Yet, morality politics increasingly appears on the European Parliament's agenda. Abortion has been tackled through parliamentary reports on sexual and reproductive health and rights; while human embryonic stem cell research has been dealt with through the successive European research framework programmes. Using semi-structured interviews with (former) MEPs, this research examines how the central actors involved in these parliamentary debates perceive and explain their vote on these issues. The analysis particularly focuses on the role of religion and values, and uncovers its effects at several levels: national culture, political affiliation and personal believing. In that regard, respondents emphasise the great degree of freedom that the European parliamentary arena offers to its members to express their personal values and convictionsand not exclusively on morality issues.

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Section: Morality Politics: Investigating Religion and Politics At Multiple Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Morality politics in the European parliament. A qualitative insight into MEPs’ voting behaviour on abortion and human embryonic stem cell research

Mondo

2018

Journal of European Integration

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“…Hence, we used three data collection modes to achieve as many responses as possible. Multi-mode approaches have been employed in similar surveys of elites, such as the 2009 European Election Candidate study (Wessels, 2011), which used mailed questionnaires and a web-based survey, the PartiRep survey of national and regional parliamentarians (Deschouwer and Depauw, 2014), which employed online, mail, telephone and face-to-face interviewing, and the Religion at the European Parliament survey (Foret, 2014), for which data were gathered by faceto-face, telephone and online modes.…”

Section: Survey Design and Implementationmentioning

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“…The PartiRep survey of national and regional parliamentarians (Deschouwer and Depauw, 2014) was web-based but also employed mail, telephone and face-to-face interviewing. Data for the Religion at the European Parliament survey (Foret, 2014) were gathered by face-to-face, telephone and online modes.…”

Section: Survey Design and Implementationmentioning

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Understanding Members of the European Parliament: Four waves of the European Parliament Research Group MEP survey

Whitaker

Hix

Zapryanova

2017

European Union Politics

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This article presents a new survey of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) conducted during 2015, which adds to a time series of MEP surveys carried out by the European Parliament Research Group. The data allow for comparison of MEPs’ views with those of the EU public, European Parliament candidates, and members of national and regional parliaments in Europe. The survey includes questions on topical issues, such as intra-EU migration and the UK–EU relationship. The dataset can be used to address a range of research questions concerning MEPs’ preferences and representation. This article presents details of the 2015 MEP survey and uses the data to assess what explains MEPs’ attitudes to the question of whether all EP plenary sessions should be held in Brussels.

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United by history, divided by God? Religion among Dutch and Belgian members of the European Parliament

Caluwaerts,

Erzeel,

Junius

et al. 2023

Religion, State and Society

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‘Religion at the European Parliament’: purposes, scope and limits of a survey on the religious beliefs of MEPs

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Morality politics in the European parliament. A qualitative insight into MEPs’ voting behaviour on abortion and human embryonic stem cell research

Morality politics in the European parliament. A qualitative insight into MEPs’ voting behaviour on abortion and human embryonic stem cell research

Understanding Members of the European Parliament: Four waves of the European Parliament Research Group MEP survey

United by history, divided by God? Religion among Dutch and Belgian members of the European Parliament

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