Explaining Religious Party Strength - State Capacity, Social Services, and Religious Civil Society

Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others.

List of contents

1 Introduction 2 Religion and State Formation 3 Theorizing Religious Party Development 4 Quantitative Analysis of Religious Party Strength 5 Anticlerical State-Building in France and Italy 6 The Rise (and Fall) of Political Catholicism in Italy and France 7 Islam and Anticlerical State-Building in Twentieth-Century Egypt, Turkey, and Albania 8 Islam and Political Competition in Egypt, Turkey, and Albania 9 Conclusion

About the author

Mário Rebelo holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, UK. He is a data specialist at Macrobond. Previously, he taught courses on Comparative Politics and European Politics at the University of Oxford, as well as a Social Policy course on Stanford University’s UK campus.

Summary

Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others.

Product details

• Authors: Mário Rebelo, Mario (Macrobond Rebelo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032328171
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232817-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, Religion and Politics, Elections & referenda, Political parties and party platforms, Elections and referenda / suffrage