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Essays On Religion And Political Behavior: How Religion Facilitates Political Development And Change, Sky L. Ammann
Essays On Religion And Political Behavior: How Religion Facilitates Political Development And Change, Sky L. Ammann
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This dissertation investigates several unexplored topics regarding the influence of Americans' religion on their political attitudes and behaviors. First, it posits that religious socialization enables and constrains the development of a child's party identification and moral issue attitudes over time. Using the Youth Parent Socialization Panel Study, three indicators of a parent's religion are employed to predict a child's politics early in life, over time, and across generations. The results show an evolving role of parental religious socialization on individuals' party identification and moral issue attitudes. In particular, for newer generations, parental religious beliefs have supplanted historical, religious-belonging-based religious measures …