Current thinking about the effect of religion on political participation centers on its organizational structure, emphasizing the role of “institutional treatment” – the development of resources, social pathways to recruitment, and shaping of motivation that occurs in small groups and...

Support for Israel has been a hallmark issue of the Jewish lobby in American politics. But what do Jewish religious leaders think about U.S. policy toward Israel and the peace process, and how often do they address these issues? Copyright (c) 2006 Southwestern Social Science Association.

Analyzing the principal-agent relationship between group members and leaders is vital for understanding a group's capacity for representation, especially as it is unclear how groups, especially those not formed for the purposes of lobbying, are able to alter their political advocacy. I argue, in...

Interest groups provide an opportunity for citizen interests to be represented before the Supreme Court. In recent decades, numerous religious advocacy organizations have formed, seeking to influence the Court. Among these groups, advocacy organizations connected to religious denominations have...

Despite the fact that numerous Christian denominations in America condemn or condone the death penalty, extant research on the effects of religiosity on citizens' support for capital punishment has generated ambiguous results of denominational affiliation. This empirical ambiguity may be the...

In this paper, I will estimate the dimensionality of public attitudes toward science, and assess the effects of religious belief, membership, and participation on the structure and distribution of attitudes toward science. In so doing, I hope to address the question of whether, and to what...

In recent years, abortion has become a salient issue in Mexican politics. In this study, we intend to use data from the World Values Surveys to acertain the correlates of attitudes toward abortion among Mexican mass publics. We will examine the effects of attitudinal variables (respect for life,...