Religion and Democratic Commitment: A Unifying Motivational Framework

• In Event: Religion, (Un)Democratic Commitments, and the State in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

Applying theories of goal constructs to religion, we explain the inconsistent findings in the literature about religion and democracy by mapping associations between religious expressions and the religious motivations underlying them.

Authors

• Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Gizem Arikan, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

• Allon Vishkin, University of Michigan