A Secularization of Cultural Politics? Changing Patterns of Cultural-Political Polarization and Voting Behavior in Western Europe, 1981-2008 KU Leuven
Despite claims about religion reasserting itself in the political realm, conflicts about non-religious issues like immigration and law and order appear to have superseded conflicts about religious issues like sexual freedom, abortion, and women’s roles. It is for instance telling that despite their major disagreements, today’s new-leftist and new-rightist political parties agree that religion should be banned from politics. It is also telling ...