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When Church Teachings and Policy Commitments Collide: Perspectives on Catholics in the U.S. House of Representatives
2008
Politics and Religion
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This article investigates the influence of religious values on domestic social policy-making, with a particular focus on Catholics. We analyze roll call votes in the 109 th Congress and find that Catholic identification is associated with support for Catholic Social Teaching, but both younger Catholics and Republican Catholics are found less supportive. In followup interviews with a small sample of Catholic Republicans, we find that they justify voting contrary to Church teaching by seeing its
doi:10.1017/s1755048308000060
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