Catholics and US Politics After the 2020 Elections

Marie Gayte is Associate Professor of U.S. History at Toulon University, FranceBlandine Chelini-Pont is Professor of Contemporary History at Aix-Marseille University, FranceMark J. Rozell is Dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government and Ruth D. and John T. Hazel Chair in Public Policy at George Mason University, USA

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The Catholic Vote in the United States.- Part I: Political Parties and Ideologies.- Chapter 2: Catholic Patterns in the American Left.- Chapter 3: Catholic Colonization of the American Right.- Chapter 4: Catholics and Evangelicals: Does Donald Trump’s Loss Mean the End of the Religious Right?.- Part II: The Bishops and the Holy See.- Chapter 5: The U.S. Catholic Bishops: From Separationism to Public Intervention.- Chapter 6: The Holy See and the Catholic Community in the 2020 Presidential Election.- Part III: Catholics and U.S. Elections.- Chapter 7: The Catholic Vote in the Election of Donald J. Trump in 2016.- Chapter 8: The Catholic Vote in the Election of Joe Biden in 2020.- Chapter 9: The Catholic Latino Vote in 2020.- Chapter 10: “Can We Get the Catholic Vote”?: The Effects of Catholic Nominees in Presidential Elections.- Chapter 11: Catholics and the Future of US Politics.

“Marie Gayte and Gerald P. Fogarty, in different ways engage more particularly Catholic questions concerning the impacts of all these decades of culture war on the church in the United States. … Indeed, as much now as since Catholics came as immigrants to dominate social life in the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century, to understand U.S. national politics we must understand Catholics. This volume makes that case, and makes it well.” (Steven P. Millies, American Catholic Studies, Vol. 134 (3), 2023)