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Church Engagement, Religious Values, and Mass‐Elite Policy Agenda Agreement in Local Communities

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  • Kim Quaile Hill
  • Tetsuya Matsubayashi

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We provide evidence on two prominent but heretofore untested expectations about the relevance of religion for the democratic process: (1) that greater engagement in churches or comparable religious institutions and their organizational life enhances representational processes; and (2) that religious values in a community have greater influence on the latter processes, with more liberal religious values expected to enhance the responsiveness of community leaders to general public preferences. Using data on local communities in the United States in the late 1960s, we find strong support for the expected relevance of religious liberalism for representation, but none for the expected effect of church engagement. We provide evidence, too, that our findings about religious values are generalizable to present‐day politics.

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  • Kim Quaile Hill & Tetsuya Matsubayashi, 2008. "Church Engagement, Religious Values, and Mass‐Elite Policy Agenda Agreement in Local Communities," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 52(3), pages 570-584, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:amposc:v:52:y:2008:i:3:p:570-584
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00330.x
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