Titlebook: Mediating Religion and Government; Political Institutio Kevin R. Dulk,Elizabeth A. Oldmixon Book 2014 Kevin R. den Dulk and Elizabeth A. Ol

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2731-6769 sis on its influence on political attitudes and behaviors, resultuing in a better understanding of religion‘s ability to shape voting patterns, party affiliation, and views of public policy.978-1-349-48392-1978-1-137-38975-6Series ISSN 2731-6769 Series E-ISSN 2731-6777

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Regulating Religion: Bureaucracies, Faith-Based Organizations, and Constitutional Limits,igious exceptions. The HHS action provoked a vigorous backlash by religiously identified nonprofits, hospitals, universities, and businesses, who claimed the mandate forced them into behavior contrary to their religious beliefs.

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Religious Actors in State Political Institutions,re effective, at the state level. The federal system in the United States grants states wide latitude in decision making about policies and budgets. This provides an attractive avenue for many religious groups to pursue their policy preferences.

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An Institutionalist Perspective on Religion and Politics,t a full recognition of the idea that rules shape our political decisions. After all, if democracy is “rule by the people,” we might expect that the people’s will ought to be translated into public policy through a process that does not alter their preferences. Yet we also know that elite and mass p

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Political Rhetoric and Institutional Structures: Religious Advocacy in the US Congress,DC, because they have concrete policy interests that they must defend throughout the routine legislative calendar, yet their authority and influence in that process depends largely on their being “above” politics. Religious organizations exude special status that derives from their representation of

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Religious Market Interest Groups: Do They Sing with an Upper Class Accent?,on behalf of every sector of the economy, and religious organizations are no exception. Yet, the literature on interest groups often treats groups formed around religion as somehow differently motivated than other interest groups (Clark and Wilson 1961; Baumgartner and Leech 1998). Religious groups

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Religion and Political Parties: Mediation in the Mass Party Era,chickler 2002; Green 2007), so it is appropriate to consider their linkage within the American political system. But, more to the point of this chapter, it is useful to assess the extent to which parties mediate the use of religion as a variable in US politics. While interest groups and political en

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The Importance of Religion to Understanding the Modern Presidency,us on the religious beliefs and practices of certain chief executives widely known to have been men of deep faith. There are substantial works, for example, on the role of religion in the lives and administrations of such modern-era presidents as Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and now Barack H. Obama