Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
religiosity, election partisanship, presidential races, New Jersey
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Economics
Abstract
Research has shown that voters show partisanship—propensity to vote along party lines—in Presidential elections. My project explores whether a person’s religiosity, as measured by affiliation variables, has an impact on partisanship and vote choice. My coauthors and I develop a religious partisanship index (RPI) that gauges the relative importance of religion between Democrats and Republicans in Presidential elections from 1980 to 2000. We find that, in every election of the 1980s, religion increased Republican partisanship, but since President Clinton (the elections of 1992, 1996 and 2000), religion increased partisanship among Democratic voters.
Recommended Citation
Ransom, Tyler M. and Butler, Dr. Richard
(2013)
"Religiosity and Election Partisanship in Presidential Races: The Case of New Jersey,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 188.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/188