1st Edition

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

By Mário Rebelo Copyright 2023
266 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others. Drawing on insights from political science and sociology, this book argues that religious parties are typically formed for defensive reasons, reacting against state-builders’ attempts to secularize public services such as education, welfare, and... Read more

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

Biography

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.