Will Americans Vote for an Atheist? New Evidence on Voters' Attitudes Toward Atheist Candidates

• In Event: Accommodating (Non) Religion in the Political Sphere

Brief Overview

This paper uses a series of experiments to examine the extent to which and the circumstances under which Americans will vote for atheist candidates. We also evaluate how candidate and voter partisanship shape levels of support for atheist candidates.

Authors

• David Campbell, University of Notre Dame

• Geoffrey Layman, University of Notre Dame

• Wayde Z.C. Marsh, University of Notre Dame