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Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization (Hardcover)
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Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization (Hardcover)
Series: Democratization Special Issues
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To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has
not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the
contrary. Over the last few decades, religion has begun to play a
significant role in public affairs and, in many cases, directly in
political systems. This edited volume analyses in detail how
religion and religious precepts inform the ideology, strategies and
electoral behaviour of political parties. Working with an original
and innovative typology of religiously oriented political parties,
the book examines cases from different regions of the world and
different religious traditions to highlight the significance of
religion for party politics. This interest for religiously oriented
parties is combined with an interest in processes of democratic
change and democratic consolidation. Political parties are central
to the success of processes of democratization while religion is
seen in many circles as an element that prevents such success
because it is perceived to be a polarising factor detrimental to
the consensus necessary to build a liberal-democratic system.
Through the different case-studies presented here, a much more
complex picture emerges, where religiously oriented political
parties perform very different and often contradicting roles with
respect to democratic change. This book was published as a special
issue of Democratization.
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