TY - JOUR
T1 - Religious Involvement and Political Behavior
T2 - a Log‐linear Analysis of White Americans, 1952‐1968
AU - Knoke, David
PY - 1974/1
Y1 - 1974/1
N2 - The political distinctiveness of major American religious groupings is well‐documented, but the role of church attendance in maintaining these cleavages has been unclear. Analysis of white respondents in five national surveys covering 16 years reveals that church attendance is significantly related to party identification and presidential vote in all but one instance. Application of Goodman's log‐linear analysis of contingency tables shows that higher rates of church attendance are related to non‐Democratic preferences among Protestants and Democratic preferences among Catholics. In several years, the relationship depends as well upon region of residence. The effects, particularly on the vote, seem to be changing systematically over time as the South becomes politically similar to the non‐South.
AB - The political distinctiveness of major American religious groupings is well‐documented, but the role of church attendance in maintaining these cleavages has been unclear. Analysis of white respondents in five national surveys covering 16 years reveals that church attendance is significantly related to party identification and presidential vote in all but one instance. Application of Goodman's log‐linear analysis of contingency tables shows that higher rates of church attendance are related to non‐Democratic preferences among Protestants and Democratic preferences among Catholics. In several years, the relationship depends as well upon region of residence. The effects, particularly on the vote, seem to be changing systematically over time as the South becomes politically similar to the non‐South.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1974.tb02127.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1974.tb02127.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84970177661
SN - 0038-0253
VL - 15
SP - 51
EP - 65
JO - Sociological Quarterly
JF - Sociological Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -