The influence of religious–Political sophistication on US public opinion

ER Schmidt - Political Behavior, 2018 - Springer
Political Behavior, 2018Springer
Scholarly accounts of elite–mass communication often suggest that political sophistication is
a necessary condition for adopting the attitudes of partisan elites. Some have also
suggested that political knowledge promotes religious–political issue constraint among
religious identifiers. This paper contributes to the political sophistication literature by piloting
and testing a new measure, religious–political sophistication (RPS), assessing knowledge of
church teaching on particular political issues. Using original measures launched on the …
Abstract
Scholarly accounts of elite–mass communication often suggest that political sophistication is a necessary condition for adopting the attitudes of partisan elites. Some have also suggested that political knowledge promotes religious–political issue constraint among religious identifiers. This paper contributes to the political sophistication literature by piloting and testing a new measure, religious–political sophistication (RPS), assessing knowledge of church teaching on particular political issues. Using original measures launched on the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, I show that for evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics, RPS (in conjunction with frequent church attendance) depresses support for abortion rights and same-sex marriage. Moreover, I argue that assessing RPS this way is not fatally contaminated by unsophisticated respondents interpolating that their clergy must share their political positions. Results suggest religion-and-politics scholars should adopt RPS measures to gain a greater understanding of the unique sources of political communication upon which religious identifiers draw.
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