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Divined Intervention provides an innovative institutionalist
account for why religion enables political activism in some
settings, but not others. Christopher W. Hale argues that
decentralized religious institutions facilitate grassroots
collective action, and he uses a multimethod approach to test this
explanation against several theoretical alternatives. Utilizing
nationally representative Mexican survey data, the book's
statistical analyses demonstrate that decentralization by the
Catholic Church is positively associated with greater individual
political activism across the country. Using case studies centered
in the Mexican states of Chiapas, Yucatan, and Morelos, the author
shows that religious decentralization encourages reciprocal
cooperative interactions at a local level. This then increases the
ability of religion to provide goods and services to its local
adherents. These processes then prompt the growth of organizational
capacities at the grassroots, enabling secular political activism.
Because this theoretical framework is grounded in human behavior,
it shows how local institutions politically organize at the
grassroots level. Divined Intervention also offers an improved
understanding of religion's relationship with political activism, a
topic of ever-increasing significance as religion fuels political
engagement across the globe. The book further synthesizes seemingly
disparate approaches to the study of collective action into a
cohesive framework. Finally, there is some debate as to the impact
of ethnic diversity on the provision of public goods, and this
study helps us understand how local institutional configurations
can enable collective action across ethnic boundaries.
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