Politics and the American clergy: Sincere shepherds or strategic saints?
Description:
Scholars have evaluated the causes of clergy political preferences and behavior for decades. As with party ID in the study of mass behavior, personal ideological preferences have been the relevant clergy literature's dominant behavioral predictor. Yet to the extent that clergy operate in bounded and specialized institutions, it is possible that much of the clergy political puzzle can be more effectively solved by recognizing these elites as institutionally-situated actors, with their preference…
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Date:
August 2007
Creator:
Calfano, Brian Robert
Partner:
UNT Libraries