Why are religious minorities well represented and politically influential in some democracies but not others? Focusing on evangelical Christians in Latin America, this book argues that religious minorities seek and gain electoral representation when they face significant threats to their material interests and worldview, and when their community is not internally divided by cross-cutting cleavages. Differences in Latin American evangelicals' political ambitions emerged as a result of two critical junctures: episodes of secular reform in the early twentieth century and the rise of sexuality politics at the turn of the twenty-first. In Brazil, significant threats at both junctures prompted extensive electoral mobilization; in Chile, minimal threats meant that mobilization lagged. In Peru, where major cleavages divide both evangelicals and broader society, threats prompt less electoral mobilization than otherwise expected. The multi-method argument leverages interviews, content analysis, survey experiments, ecological analysis, and secondary case studies of Colombia, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.
By:
Taylor C. Boas (Boston University) Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 158mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 650g ISBN:9781009275071 ISBN 10: 1009275070 Series:Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics Pages: 315 Publication Date:26 January 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Taylor C. Boas is Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Boston University. He is author of Presidential Campaigns in Latin America: Electoral Strategies and Success Contagion (2016).