Jewish Religiosity and Political Attitudes in the United States and Israel |
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Authors: | Kenneth D. Wald Michael D. Martinez |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Political Science, University of Florida, POB 117325, Gainesville, FL, 32611-7325 |
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Abstract: | Does religious commitment have a common political impact across national frontiers? To date, that question has been explored empirically only for Roman Catholics, who might be expected to behave similarly because of centralizing resources in their tradition. This article explores the extent of transnational political attitudes among Jews in the United States and Israel, two groups with less centralized authority structures and radically different religious situations. Parallel surveys of Jews in the United States and Israel, analyzed by OLS regression with the slope dummy approach, indicate that Jewish religiosity has a common influence on most political issues but often has much sharper effects in one society than the other. Given our expectation that Jews would exhibit lower levels of transnational similarity than Roman Catholics, the findings reinforce scholars who perceive religion as a potent transnational political factor. |
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Keywords: | Jewish Jews religiosity Israel transnational transnationalism slope dummies Orthodox religious commitment |
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