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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300513203321

Titolo

Catholics and US Politics After the 2016 Elections [[electronic resource] ] : Understanding the “Swing Vote" / / edited by Marie Gayte, Blandine Chelini-Pont, Mark J. Rozell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-62262-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 226 p. 27 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy

Disciplina

973.932092

Soggetti

Religion and politics

Catholic Church

Religion and sociology

Politics and Religion

Catholicism

Sociology of Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1.  Introduction: The Catholic Vote in the United States -- 2. Catholic Patterns in the American Left -- 3. Catholic Colonization of the American Right -- 4. Catholics and Evangelicals: Does Donald Trump Mean the End of the Religious Right? -- 5. The U.S. Catholic Bishops: From Separationism to Public Intervention -- 6. The Holy See and the Catholic Community in the 2016 Presidential Election -- 7. The Catholic Vote in the Election of Donald J. Trump -- 8. A Catholic Latino Vote? -- 9. “Can We Get the Catholic Vote”?: The Effects of Catholic Running Mates in Presidential Elections -- 10. Catholics and the 2016 Elections.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections. There is a paucity of academic works on Catholics and US politics—scholars of religion and US politics tend to focus on evangelical Protestant voters—even though Catholics are widely considered the swing vote in national elections. The 2016 presidential election proves that the swing vote component of that group matters in close elections. What Trump



gained from his impressive showing among Catholics, he could certainly lose in 2020 (should he seek re-election), just as Hillary Clinton lost the clear advantage among Catholics achieved by Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. The book begins by analyzing the ideological patterns in the politics of U.S. Catholics as well as key alliances, and concludes by studying the political influences of the U.S. Catholic Bishops and the Holy See. .