Coping with Cross-Pressures: Electoral Choice and Political Perceptions among American Catholics

• In Event: Elections and Vote Choice

Brief Overview

This paper tests hypotheses about which U.S. Catholics share their bishops’ pro-life, pro-social welfare policy views and how, in their presidential voting, they resolve potential cross-pressures produced by these partisan-incongruent preferences.

Authors

• Laura Hussey, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

• Geoffrey Layman, University of Notre Dame