On the social split of religious voting in Europe

Authors

  • Guillermo Cordero

Keywords:

Cleavages, religious voting, Europe, social divisions, electoral behavior

Abstract

Despite the popularity of religious voting models during the sixties and seventies, the intense process of secularization in Europe contributed to insist on the end of religiosity as a predictor of electoral behavior in Europe. The chaos in these works resulted in a lack of agreement on the theoretical models, the definition of the concepts and also its empirical analysis. Considering the resurgence of studies pointing to the re-emergence of the religious vote in Europe, this analysis seeks to classify the existing studies in order to review the main contributions and also highlight the most widespread gaps in the field.

Issue

Section

RESEARCH NOTES