Catholics and US Politics After the 2016 Elections Understanding the "Swing Vote" /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gayte, Marie (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chelini-Pont, Blandine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rozell, Mark J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
• Subjects: Religion and politics.; Catholic Church.; Religion and sociology.; Politics and Religion.; Catholicism.; Sociology of Religion.

This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections. There is a paucity of academic works on Catholics and US politics-scholars of religion and US politics tend to focus on evangelical Protestant voters-even though Catho...

Table of Contents:

• 1.  Introduction: The Catholic Vote in the United States
• 2. Catholic Patterns in the American Left
• 3. Catholic Colonization of the American Right
• 4. Catholics and Evangelicals: Does Donald Trump Mean the End of the Religious Right?
• 5. The U.S. Catholic Bishops: From Separationism to Public Intervention
• 6. The Holy See and the Catholic Community in the 2016 Presidential Election
• 7. The Catholic Vote in the Election of Donald J. Trump
• 8. A Catholic Latino Vote?
• 9. "Can We Get the Catholic Vote"?: The Effects of Catholic Running Mates in Presidential Elections
• 10. Catholics and the 2016 Elections.