John C Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 124532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John C Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | John C |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Akron |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 985 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Psychogeography as Embodied Connection to Place
This article introduces psychogeography as a research method that relies on embodied practices of drifting (dérive) through a city, which are followed by subsequent creative cartography. Mapping and documentation that follow dérive promote fuller understanding of persons' patterns of embodying sensory data from urban environments. This article then applies key ideas from psychogeography to urban planning and public health.As soon as I step outsid…
Fuel on the Fire: Has the Politics of Covid-19 Accelerated Secularization in America
Politics increasingly shapes Americans’ social orientations, including their religious affiliations and levels of religiosity. Less is known about whether politics affects secularism—an affirmative embrace of secular worldviews and identities. Drawing on an original panel survey from 2017 to 2021 plus two survey experiments, this paper investigates whether the political debate over public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically va…
Secularism and American Political Behavior
The recent growth of the secular population in the United States has implications for American politics. However, our understanding of these implications has been hindered by oversimplified concepts and measures that equate secularism with non-religion. We separate the two concepts, distinguishing “non-religiosity,” or the absence of religion, from “secularism,” or a positive embrace of secular beliefs and identities. Using original national-samp…
Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics
American society is rapidly secularizing–a radical departure from its historically high level of religiosity–and politics is a big part of the reason. Just as, forty years ago, the Religious Right arose as a new political movement, today secularism is gaining traction as a distinct and politically energized identity. This book examines the political causes and political consequences of this secular surge, drawing on a wealth of original data. The…
Group Commitment Among U.S. Party Factions: A Perspective From Democratic and Republican National Convention Delegates
Parties need to win elections, but they also heed the policy preferences of activists to provide the incentive to mobilize. Moving beyond the debate as to whether parties as a whole are policy or office driven, we examine groups within parties and identify different factions that place differential emphasis on office-seeking versus policy-demanding. Using data from the 2012 Convention Delegate Study of Democratic and Republican Party national del…
Will Americans Vote for Muslims? Cultural Outgroup Antipathy, Candidate Religion, and U.S. Voting Behavior
We assess how likely Americans are to support political candidates who are Muslim, and the extent to which support for Muslim candidates is structured by “cultural outgroup antipathy”—generalized antipathy targeting cultural outgroups. We employ two survey experiments included in the 2007 and 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Studies that juxtapose a hypothetical state legislative candidate's Muslim faith with Arab ethnicity, African Americ…
Putting Politics First: The Impact of Politics on American Religious and Secular Orientations
Nearly all research on the political impact of Americans’ religious and secular orientations assumes that such orientations are exogenous to politics. Using multiwave panel and experimental data, we find that religious and secular orientations are endogenous to political orientations. In other words, religion and secularism are a consequence as well as a cause of politics. In showing this, we make three major contributions. First, we conceptualiz…
Survey Experiments on Candidate Religiosity, Political Attitudes, and Vote Choice
Because identification with and affect toward social groups is a primary heuristic for citizens, the social group profiles of candidates are important for electoral behavior. We focus on an increasingly important element of candidates' social characteristics: their levels of religiosity and secularism. We argue that as religious groups and identities become structured less by what religion they are and more by how religious they are (or are not),…
A Muslim President? Misperceptions of Barack Obama's Faith in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Rumors that President Barack Obama is a Muslim were rampant during the 2008 presidential campaign and continued well into his presidency. These rumors were widely believed, were electorally consequential, and are part of a growing trend of politically motivated misconceptions. Thus, relying principally on the theory of motivated reasoning, we examine the factors that shaped citizens' beliefs about and responses to messages about Obama's faith. Us…
New and Old Evangelical Public Engagement
Religious Group Cues and Citizen Policy Attitudes in the United States
The public opinion literature shows that cues about the policy positions of social groups influence citizens’ political attitudes. We assess whether cues about religious groups’ positions affect attitudes on three issues: protection of homosexuals in the workplace, improving the socio-economic conditions of African-Americans, and government-provided health insurance. We argue that such cues should shape issue attitudes and condition the impact of…
The Stained Glass Ceiling: Social Contact and Mitt Romney’s “Religion Problem
The Party Faithful: Partisan Images, Candidate Religion, and the Electoral Impact of Party Identification
We argue that the factors shaping the impact of partisanship on vote choice—"partisan voting"—depend on the nature of party identification. Because party identification is partly based on images of the social group characteristics of the parties, the social profiles of political candidates should affect levels of partisan voting. A candidate's religious affiliation enables a test of this hypothesis. Using survey experiments which vary a hypotheti…
The Party Faithful: Religion and Party Politics in America
This article discusses the religious elements of the major party coalitions in the American public. It first addresses why religion is relevant to party politics at a conceptual level. The religious character of the major party coalitions is summarized. The article considers the recent party coalitions, comparing the Democratic and Republican faith-based supporters in 1952 and 2008. It finally describes the ‘party faithful’ in the early years of …
The Faith Factor
Activists and Conflict Extension in American Party Politics
Party activists have played a leading role in "conflict extension"-the polarization of the parties along multiple issue dimensions-in contemporary American politics. We argue that open nomination systems and the ambitious politicians competing within those systems encourage activists with extreme views on a variety of issue dimensions to become involved in party politics, thus motivating candidates to take noncentrist positions on a range of issu…
American Faith-Based Politics in the ERA of George W. Bush
During the era of George W. Bush, American religion was very diverse, including membership in many religious traditions and variation in religious traditionalism within these religious traditions. Both kinds of religious differences were highly politicised and embedded within the major party coalitions at the mass and elite levels. This pattern is likely to persist, but may not always benefit the Republicans as in the Bush era, as revealed by the…
Strategic Voting and Legislative Redistricting Reform: District and Statewide Representational Winners and Losers
Political elites are generally reluctant to alter the status quo unless a change will benefit them. Scholars have found that institutions, and the rules governing them, tend to evolve in ways that maintain equilibrium, preserving the status of winners. Are voters—when presented the opportunity—more likely than elites to alter political institutions? Using survey data, the authors explore mass support in the American states for changing how legisl…
The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections
Examines the role of faith and religion in American elections, including most recently the 2004 election
The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections (Religion, Politics, and Public Life Under the auspices of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center … Public Life, Trinity College, Hartford, CT)
Religion and Torture: A View From the Polls
In response to the national security policies of the Bush administration, many religious leaders in the United States have spoken out against the use of torture as a tactic in fighting terrorism. The question of torture has produced agreement among Christian organizations which often disagree. Recently, The Pew Research Center surveyed public opinion on torture and terrorism; the findings suggest that religious affiliation and worship attendance …
The Values Campaign: The Christian Right and the 2004 Elections
Religious Influences in the 2004 Presidential Election
In this article, we examine the impact of religious variables on the vote in the 2004 presidential election. First, we review and evaluate two theories that underlie many interpretations of religion’s role in American electoral politics, namely, the ethnoreligious and the religious restructuring perspectives. Using both approaches, we deploy a comprehensive classification incorporating religious affiliations, beliefs, and practices that is quite …
State Party Context and Norms among Delegates to the 2000 National Party Conventions
Political scientists have increasingly viewed party activists as important catalysts for party behavior and change in American politics. Understanding the decisionmaking norms of these activists should help inform scholars' broader understanding of party performance. We examine the norms of party decisionmaking expressed by a select group of party activists: delegates to both parties' 2000 national conventions. We focus on how state contextual fa…
Wars and Rumours of Wars: The Contexts of Cultural Conflict in American Political Behaviour
A heated scholarly debate rages over the ‘culture wars thesis’ in American politics. Drawing on the literature on mass opinion constraint and its sources, we propose a resolution to this debate: the culture wars influence mass political behaviour in special religious, policy and political contexts where logical, psychological, social and electoral sources of opinion constraint are in effect. Using data pooled from the 1992, 1996 and 2000 American…
Activists and Conflict Extension in American Party Politics
Party activists have played a leading role in "conflict extension"-the polarization of the parties along multiple issue dimensions-in contemporary American politics. We argue that open nomination systems and the ambitious politicians competing within those systems encourage activists with extreme views on a variety of issue dimensions to become involved in party politics, thus motivating candidates to take noncentrist positions on a range of issu…
Faith and the Environment: Religious Beliefs and Attitudes on Environmental Policy
Theory: Conservative Christian theology contains a set of beliefs that run counter to the philosophy supporting environmentalism. Hypotheses: Conservative eschatology (Biblical literalism, End Times thinking), religious tradition, and religious commitment should be negatively related to support for environmental policy. Data: Using data from four national surveys of clergy, religious activists, political-party contributors, and the mass public, w…
Wars and Rumours of Wars: The Contexts of Cultural Conflict in American Political Behaviour
A heated scholarly debate rages over the ‘culture wars thesis’ in American politics. Drawing on the literature on mass opinion constraint and its sources, we propose a resolution to this debate: the culture wars influence mass political behaviour in special religious, policy and political contexts where logical, psychological, social and electoral sources of opinion constraint are in effect. Using data pooled from the 1992, 1996 and 2000 American…
The Party Faithful: Partisan Images, Candidate Religion, and the Electoral Impact of Party Identification
We argue that the factors shaping the impact of partisanship on vote choice—"partisan voting"—depend on the nature of party identification. Because party identification is partly based on images of the social group characteristics of the parties, the social profiles of political candidates should affect levels of partisan voting. A candidate's religious affiliation enables a test of this hypothesis. Using survey experiments which vary a hypotheti…
Putting Politics First: The Impact of Politics on American Religious and Secular Orientations
Nearly all research on the political impact of Americans’ religious and secular orientations assumes that such orientations are exogenous to politics. Using multiwave panel and experimental data, we find that religious and secular orientations are endogenous to political orientations. In other words, religion and secularism are a consequence as well as a cause of politics. In showing this, we make three major contributions. First, we conceptualiz…
Religious Influences in the 2004 Presidential Election
In this article, we examine the impact of religious variables on the vote in the 2004 presidential election. First, we review and evaluate two theories that underlie many interpretations of religion’s role in American electoral politics, namely, the ethnoreligious and the religious restructuring perspectives. Using both approaches, we deploy a comprehensive classification incorporating religious affiliations, beliefs, and practices that is quite …
The Christian Right in the Republican Party: The Case of Pat Robertson's Supporters
Using the results of an extensive mail survey of donors to Republican presidential candidate and party committees, we compare contributors to Pat Robertson's campaign with donors to right-wing and mainstream Republican committees. While measures of salience, ideology, religiosity, demography and partisanship show Robertson supporters to be distinctive in expected ways, they are remarkably similar to other kinds of Republicans in many other respec…
Religion, Representatives, and Roll Calls
This research extends the study of constituency effects on congressional voting to the religious character of House districts. Using aggregate data on membership in religious denominations, we find that the denominational composition of districts is significantly associated with members' voting records, even when district demography and members' personal characteristics are taken into account. District-level membership in theologically-conservati…
Limousine Liberals and Corporate Conservatives: The Financial Constituencies of the Democratic and Republican Parties
Objective. This study examines the backgrounds, political attitudes, issue preferences, and political participation of congressional donors who contribute $200 or more to congressional campaigns. Methods. We use a nationwide survey of more than 1,000 donors and analyze differences among these individuals using cluster analysis. Results. Although these significant donors are economic elites, we find they are not monolithic in their political views…
Religious Group Cues and Citizen Policy Attitudes in the United States
The public opinion literature shows that cues about the policy positions of social groups influence citizens’ political attitudes. We assess whether cues about religious groups’ positions affect attitudes on three issues: protection of homosexuals in the workplace, improving the socio-economic conditions of African-Americans, and government-provided health insurance. We argue that such cues should shape issue attitudes and condition the impact of…
Fund-raising in Presidential Nomination Campaigns: The Primary Lessons of 1988
This article presents an exploratory analysis of the flow of funds raised in American presidential nomination campaigns. Using detailed financial data for all the major party candidates in the 1988 presidential contest, we ex plicate and test two rival models of fund-raising: A "campaign-driven" model, which ties the fund-raising success to performance in the cam paign itself, often in the form of momentum; and an "organization-driven" model, whi…
Survey Experiments on Candidate Religiosity, Political Attitudes, and Vote Choice
Because identification with and affect toward social groups is a primary heuristic for citizens, the social group profiles of candidates are important for electoral behavior. We focus on an increasingly important element of candidates' social characteristics: their levels of religiosity and secularism. We argue that as religious groups and identities become structured less by what religion they are and more by how religious they are (or are not),…
Theological Perspectives and Environmentalism among Religious Activists
James L. Guth, Lyman A. Kellstedt, Corwin E. Smidt, John C. Green, Theological Perspectives and Environmentalism among Religious Activists, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Dec., 1993), pp. 373-382
Strategic Voting and Legislative Redistricting Reform: District and Statewide Representational Winners and Losers
Political elites are generally reluctant to alter the status quo unless a change will benefit them. Scholars have found that institutions, and the rules governing them, tend to evolve in ways that maintain equilibrium, preserving the status of winners. Are voters—when presented the opportunity—more likely than elites to alter political institutions? Using survey data, the authors explore mass support in the American states for changing how legisl…
Faith and Election: The Christian Right in Congressional Campaigns 1978- 1988
Here we assess the involvement of the Christian Right in recent congressional campaigns from three theoretical perspectives: the "demand" for Christian Right activism, the "supply" of resources for such activism, and "strategic choice" in the deployment of such resources. We find that the Christian Right was most active, and apparently successful, where all three factors converged. These findings reveal the political character of the Christian Ri…
The Stained Glass Ceiling: Social Contact and Mitt Romney’s “Religion Problem
Religious Voting Blocs in the 1992 Election: The Year of the Evangelical
Etude de l'alignement politique et du comportement electoral des principales traditions religieuses americaines en 1992. Les protestants evangeliques solidifient leur inclination republicaine et deviennent un bloc central dans la coalition GOP. La majorite des protestants, se trouvant traditionnellement au centre du parti republicain, se sont tournes vers Clinton et Perot au detriment de Bush alors que les votants catholiques sont retournes a leu…
The Religion Gap
As the 2004 presidential election approached, journalists discovered an apparently new political phenomenon: the “religion gap,” or the tendency of the most religious Americans to espouse conservative political beliefs and prefer Republican candidates. As a typical news story put it, “Want to know how Americans will vote next Election Day? Watch what they do the weekend before. If they attend religious services regularly, they probably will vote …
Secularism and American Political Behavior
The recent growth of the secular population in the United States has implications for American politics. However, our understanding of these implications has been hindered by oversimplified concepts and measures that equate secularism with non-religion. We separate the two concepts, distinguishing “non-religiosity,” or the absence of religion, from “secularism,” or a positive embrace of secular beliefs and identities. Using original national-samp…
The Financiers of Congressional Elections: Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates
Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. But significant donors (defined here as those contributing more than $200) are the least understood participants in the system. Defenders assert that contributing money to campaigns is part of a broader pattern of civic involvement and is free speech that gives a voice to various interests. Detractors …
An ideology of rights: Support for civil liberties among political activists
Uneasy Alliance: Conservative Catholics and the Christian Right
Journal Article Uneasy Alliance: Conservative Catholics and the Christian Right Get access Mary E. Bendyna, RSM, Mary E. Bendyna, RSM Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John C. Green, John C. Green University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark J. Rozell, Mark J. Rozell * The Catholic University of America * Direc…
Social Movements and Party Politics: The Case of the Christian Right
This paper explores the uneasy relationship between social movements and major political parties by considering the case of the Christian Right and the Republican Party in the 1994 elections. We look at four states where the movement was active in party politics and where Republican electoral fortunes varied from failure to success. We found that the degree of intraparty division generated by the Christian Right seemed to hurt Republicans at the …
Politics in a New Key: Religiosity and Participation among Political Activists
FN EW events surprised observers of American politics as much as the recent increase in religiously based conflict in American politics (Wald 1987: 6-12). The decade-long rise of the Christian Right is a case in point: dominant theories of modern politics predicted the decline of religion in public life (Guth et al. 1988). Equally troubling, if less commented upon, was the surge of left-wing church activism in the 1960s and its in the Reagan era …
The Missing Link: Political Activists and Support for School Prayer
Explanations for the wide gap between strong public support for school prayer and lack of support in Congress have focused on the attributes of the public. Here another important explicand is investigated: the characteristics of political activists. We find that activist opinion more nearly matches congressional behavior on school prayer than does public opinion. While many of the same demographic and religious variables explain support for schoo…
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The Reapportionment Puzzle. Bruce E. Cain
The Christian Right in the Republican Party: The Case of Pat Robertson's Supporters
Using the results of an extensive mail survey of donors to Republican presidential candidate and party committees, we compare contributors to Pat Robertson's campaign with donors to right-wing and mainstream Republican committees. While measures of salience, ideology, religiosity, demography and partisanship show Robertson supporters to be distinctive in expected ways, they are remarkably similar to other kinds of Republicans in many other respec…
Money in American Elections. Frank J. Sorauf. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1988. 416p. $12.95 paper
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Business and Politics: A Study of Collective Action. William D. Coleman Pressure of the Poor: The Poverty Lobby. Paul F. Whiteley , Stephen J. Winyard The Best Congress Money Can Buy. Philip M. Stern
The Missing Link: Political Activists and Support for School Prayer
Explanations for the wide gap between strong public support for school prayer and lack of support in Congress have focused on the attributes of the public. Here another important explicand is investigated: the characteristics of political activists. We find that activist opinion more nearly matches congressional behavior on school prayer than does public opinion. While many of the same demographic and religious variables explain support for schoo…
Politics in a New Key: Religiosity and Participation among Political Activists
FN EW events surprised observers of American politics as much as the recent increase in religiously based conflict in American politics (Wald 1987: 6-12). The decade-long rise of the Christian Right is a case in point: dominant theories of modern politics predicted the decline of religion in public life (Guth et al. 1988). Equally troubling, if less commented upon, was the surge of left-wing church activism in the 1960s and its in the Reagan era …
An ideology of rights: Support for civil liberties among political activists
Religion, Representatives, and Roll Calls
This research extends the study of constituency effects on congressional voting to the religious character of House districts. Using aggregate data on membership in religious denominations, we find that the denominational composition of districts is significantly associated with members' voting records, even when district demography and members' personal characteristics are taken into account. District-level membership in theologically-conservati…
Hollow Core: Evangelical Clergy & the 1988 Robertson Campaign
The Bible and the Ballot Box: Religion and Politics in the 1988 Election
Journal Article The Bible and the Ballot Box: Religion and Politics in the 1988 Election, edited by James L. Guth and John C. Green. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991, xiv + 236 pp. Get access Joseph B. Tamney Joseph B. Tamney Ball State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 3, Fall 1992, Pages 334–335, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711711 Published: 01 October 1992
The Bible and the Ballot Box: Religion and Politics in the 1988 Election
The Political Mobilization of Religious Beliefs
The Bible and the Ballot Box: Religion and Politics in the 1988 Election
Part 1 Religion and politics in 1988: religion in the 1988 presidential campaign, Allen D. Hertzke. Part 2 Religious elites and politics: protestant leaders and the 1988 campaign, Anne M. Hallum Catholic leaders and the 1988 campaign, Mary T. Hanna Jewish leaders and the 1988 campaign, Carl Lieberman. Part 3 Religion and political activism: the protestant clergy in the 1988 presidential election, James L. Guth et al religion and party activists 1…
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. James D. Hunter The Transformation of the Christian Right. Matthew C. Moen God's Warriors: The Christian Right in Twentieth-Century America. Clyde Wilcox
Faith and Election: The Christian Right in Congressional Campaigns 1978- 1988
Here we assess the involvement of the Christian Right in recent congressional campaigns from three theoretical perspectives: the "demand" for Christian Right activism, the "supply" of resources for such activism, and "strategic choice" in the deployment of such resources. We find that the Christian Right was most active, and apparently successful, where all three factors converged. These findings reveal the political character of the Christian Ri…
Theological Perspectives and Environmentalism among Religious Activists
James L. Guth, Lyman A. Kellstedt, Corwin E. Smidt, John C. Green, Theological Perspectives and Environmentalism among Religious Activists, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Dec., 1993), pp. 373-382
Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics
Religious Voting Blocs in the 1992 Election: The Year of the Evangelical
Etude de l'alignement politique et du comportement electoral des principales traditions religieuses americaines en 1992. Les protestants evangeliques solidifient leur inclination republicaine et deviennent un bloc central dans la coalition GOP. La majorite des protestants, se trouvant traditionnellement au centre du parti republicain, se sont tournes vers Clinton et Perot au detriment de Bush alors que les votants catholiques sont retournes a leu…
One Nation under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society
The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections: A View from the States
In 1994 the news media rediscovered the Christian Right and came away perplexed. The movement seemed to contradict conventional wisdom at every turn. First, many observers were surprised that it was still strong and active, given the responsibility assigned to it for the Republican defeat in 1992. Second, its activities were neither all successes nor failures, making the story-line difficult to follow. How could a movement with such a controversi…
Faith and the Environment: Religious Beliefs and Attitudes on Environmental Policy
Theory: Conservative Christian theology contains a set of beliefs that run counter to the philosophy supporting environmentalism. Hypotheses: Conservative eschatology (Biblical literalism, End Times thinking), religious tradition, and religious commitment should be negatively related to support for environmental policy. Data: Using data from four national surveys of clergy, religious activists, political-party contributors, and the mass public, w…
Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers
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