The Christian Right in American Politics

Wilcox, Clyde; Robinson, Carin

doi:10.4324/9780429494901-3

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“…In many ways, this intraparty competition is not a new phenomenon. For decades, traditionally religious groups have tried to push the Republican Party toward greater conservatism on cultural−moral issues (Green & Guth, 1988; Wilcox & Robinson, 2010). The “Christian Right” pursued internal and external party strategies (Conger, 2009) to achieve their goals.…”

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Group Commitment Among U.S. Party Factions: A Perspective From Democratic and Republican National Convention Delegates

Conger

Cooperman

Shufeldt

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American Politics Research

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Parties need to win elections, but they also heed the policy preferences of activists to provide the incentive to mobilize. Moving beyond the debate as to whether parties as a whole are policy or office driven, we examine groups within parties and identify different factions that place differential emphasis on office-seeking versus policy-demanding. Using data from the 2012 Convention Delegate Study of Democratic and Republican Party national delegates, we identify distinct factional groups within each party. We map these factions within each party, finding policy-driven and office-driven factions of delegates in both Republican and Democratic parties. We evaluate each group’s response to political and party involvement, support for the larger party organization, and response to both intra- and interparty conflict. Finally, we make clear the picture of factional relationships within each party by accounting for how factional goals are integrated into the party organization over time.

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Group Commitment Among U.S. Party Factions: A Perspective From Democratic and Republican National Convention Delegates

Conger

Cooperman

Shufeldt

et al. 2019

American Politics Research

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“…The relationship that Evangelicals have fostered with the religious right also contextualizes why Evangelicals are most likely to disapprove of policies to redress racial inequality, such as affirmative action or targeted government programs (Wilcox and Robinson, 2009). The adoption of conservative political ideology by Evangelicals has shaped their cultural repertoire.…”

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Encouraging accountability: Evangelicals and American health care reform

Franz

2018

Critical Research on Religion

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Although scholars have thoroughly assessed American Evangelical Protestants’ beliefs about government intervention in addressing socioeconomic stratification and racial discrimination, they have paid considerably less attention to interpretations of health care reform. Especially important is that American Evangelicalism in recent years has incorporated personal accountability in such a way that makes this group distinctive when considering social responsibility toward others. Whereas earlier Evangelicals were instrumental in furthering the social gospel, American Evangelicals today prioritize matters of personal accountability ahead of social action. The cultural toolkit available to Evangelicals includes a rationale for caring for others, but an emphasis on personal accountability shapes how they evaluate government health care interventions. This paper employs qualitative methods to understand how Evangelicals link such individualism with strategies for caring for others in the context of health care. The findings suggest that Evangelicals emphasize personal accountability, especially when evaluating government programs. However, personal accountability is accompanied by a conflicting ethical responsibility to provide care to others. The priority given to personal accountability or an ethic of care, however, varies according to the situational context or social location of white Evangelicals. These findings may be helpful in framing future health policies to draw Evangelical support.

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“…Given these reasons, it should be no surprise that scholarship has found that the agenda of the New Christian Right has changed over time (Wilcox, 1988; Wilcox & Robinson, 2011). In the 1960s and 1970s, the first wave of the New Christian Right focused on issues such as school prayer and abortion (Hunter, 1991).…”

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New Fronts in the Culture Wars? Religion, Partisanship, and Polarization on Religious Liberty and Transgender Rights in the United States

Castle

2018

American Politics Research

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Beginning in the 1960s, the United States experienced religious and partisan conflict over cultural issues such as abortion that was described as a “Culture War.” Recent, highly salient battles over religious liberty and transgender rights have led the media to characterize these issues as “new fronts in the culture war,” thereby giving reason to revisit the culture wars debate. In this article, I test whether the public is polarized on religious liberty and transgender rights, as well as whether these issues share the same underlying structure of public opinion as traditional culture wars issues. Using a dataset from the Pew Research Center, I find that a substantial subset of Americans hold polarized views on these issues, and that religion and party are important factors in explaining that polarization. The results suggest that the religious and partisan divides that fueled the original “culture wars” remain an important factor in American politics.

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The Christian Right in American Politics

Cited by 17 publications

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Group Commitment Among U.S. Party Factions: A Perspective From Democratic and Republican National Convention Delegates

Group Commitment Among U.S. Party Factions: A Perspective From Democratic and Republican National Convention Delegates

Encouraging accountability: Evangelicals and American health care reform

New Fronts in the Culture Wars? Religion, Partisanship, and Polarization on Religious Liberty and Transgender Rights in the United States

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