The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics

The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics
ISBN-10
0231120583
ISBN-13
9780231120586
Series
The Great Divide
Category
Political Science
Pages
435
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Geoffrey Layman

Description

Employing a sizeable collection of data on party members, activists, and elites, Geoffrey Layman examines the role of religion in the Democratic and Republican parties, and the ways in which religion has influenced the political process from the early 1960s through the late 1990s.

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