Religious Voting in Western Democracies

José Ramón Montero is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.Paolo Segatti is a former Professor of Political Sociology at the Università degli Studi di Milano.Kerman Calvo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universidad de Salamanca.

• 1: Kerman Calvo, Paolo Segatti, and José Ramón Montero: Introduction: Does religious voting really exist in secularized democracies?Part I. Setting the scene2: Karel Dobbelaere: Conflicts on moral issues: Christian Churches and societal secularization in Western Europe3: Stefano Bartolini: Cleavages and divides in voting and political theory4: José Ramón Montero: Religious cleavages and religious voting5: Ferruccio Biolcati and Cristiano Vezzoni: Religious change and church attendance in Western Europe6: Rosa M. Navarrete, Guillermo Cordero, and Jaime Balaguer: Religiosity and ideology in Western Europe and the United States7: Alberto Sanz, Stefano Camatarri, Paolo Segatti, and José Ramón Montero: Comparative religious voting: Mechanisms of politicization in post-cleavage electionsPart II. Catholic countries8: Julian Aichholzer, David Johann, and Sylvia Kritzinger: Austria: Developments and determinants of religious voting9: Ferruccio Biolcati, Paolo Segatti, and Cristiano Vezzoni: Italy: From the religious cleavage to the politics of religious voting10: Jaak Billiet and Koen Abts: Belgium: Changes in Church involvement, pillar organizations, and voting11: Michael Marsh: Ireland: Religion and politics12: Bruno Cautrès: France: The persisting relevance of religious voting13: Kerman Calvo, Álvaro Martínez, and José Ramón Montero: Spain: Religiosity, ideology, and voting14: Carlos Jalali: Portugal: Religiosity, party strategies, and votingPart III. Mixed countries15: Martin Elff and Sigrid Roßteutscher: Germany: Church affiliation, church attendance, and support for Christian Democrats16: Nan Dirk De Graaf and Giedo Jansen: The Netherlands: The role of cultural conservatism among voters and party elites17: Romain Lachat: Switzerland: The decline of the religious cleavagePart IV. Protestant countries18: James Tilley: Britain: The resilience of religion as an electoral divide19: Bernt Aardal and Henrik Oscarsson: Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: Christian Democratic parties and religious votingPart V. The United States20: Magda Giurcanu and Kenneth D. Wald: The United States: Religion and political preferences21: Kenneth D. Wald: The United States and Europe: The importance of regimes of religion and StatePart VI. Conclusions22: Paolo Segatti, Kerman Calvo, and José Ramón Montero: Conclusions: The many facets of religious votingReferencesIndex of authorsIndex of subjects

Sets a new standard for studying the link between religion and politics in the secularised countries of Western Europe.