Corwin Smidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 257462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Corwin Smidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Corwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Smidt |
| SIGNATURE | SMIDT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Calvin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Catholics and the 2020 Presidential Election
This article examines the role of Catholics within the 2020 presidential election in the United States. Although Catholics were once a crucial and dependable component of the Democratic Party’s electoral coalition, their vote in more recent years has been much more splintered. Nevertheless, Catholics have been deemed to be an important “swing vote” in American politics today, as in recent presidential elections they have aligned with the national…
Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-county Study
This paper is the result of a nationwide study of polling place dynamics in the 2016 presidential election. Research teams, recruited from local colleges and universities and located in twenty-eight election jurisdictions across the United States, observed and timed voters as they entered the queue at their respective polling places and then voted. We report results about four specific polling place operations and practices: the length of the che…
Evaluating Legislative Districts Using Measures of Partisan Bias and Simulations
A well-developed body of research offers ways to measure the partisan advantages that result from legislative districting. Although useful to researchers and legal practitioners, those studies also suffer from theoretical, empirical, and legal limitations. In this essay, we review measures of partisan bias and methods for both simulating election results under existing maps and simulating hypothetical maps. We start by describing the concept of p…
Pedagogical Value of Polling-Place Observation by Students
Good education requires student experiences that deliver lessons about practice as well as theory and that encourage students to work for the public good—especially in the operation of democratic institutions (Dewey 1923; Dewy 1938). We report on an evaluation of the pedagogical value of a research project involving 23 colleges and universities across the country. Faculty trained and supervised students who observed polling places in the 2016 Gen…
More Bang for the Buck: Campaign Spending and Fundraising Success
Can candidates spend their way into financial success? We propose that the 2007 presidential money primary offers unprecedented leverage to evaluate spending’s influence since it allows for sharper controls of confounding factors. Our results demonstrate that greater candidate spending on fundraising-related efforts is associated with significant future financial benefits. We estimate that, prior to the primaries, increases in spending have an eq…
New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America
New Day Begun presents the findings of the first major research project on black churches' civic involvement since C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya's landmark study Black Church in the African American Experience. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the scale and scope of African American churches' civic involvement have changed significantly: the number of African American clergy serving in elect…
The Political Attitudes and Activities of Mainline Protestant Clergy in the Election of 2000: A Study of Six Denominations
This study examines clergy across six mainline Protestant denominations in terms of their social characteristics, their theological positions, and their political attitudes and behavior. The analysis is based on data collected through random surveys of clergy in each denomination conducted in 2001 using the same instrument. The predominant focus of the article is on the nature and level of political activities exhibited by mainline Protestant cle…
Clergy in American Politics: An Introduction
The Political Activities of Reformed Clergy in the UnitedStates and Scotland
This paper examines Reformed clergy across two different settings-the United States and Scotland in an effort to determine how theological orthodoxy is related to political participation. The paper demonstrates that (1) clergy in both settings tend to be politically active (2) the level of clergy political activity tends to be greater in the United States than in Scotland (3) the relationship between orthodoxy and political activity is complex, v…
Religion and Civic Engagement: A Comparative Analysis
This study examines the relationship between religious involvement and civic engagement in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective. Using data from a 1996 survey of 3000 Canadians and 3000 Americans, the study assesses religion's relative contribution to civic engagement in the two settings. The study reveals that both religious tradition and, more important, church attendance play an important role in fostering involvement in civil society in …
Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics, by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox
Journal Article Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics Get access Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 304 pp. $32.95. Corwin Smidt Corwin Smidt Calvin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 112, Issue 4, Winter 1997, Pages 717–718, https://do…
Public Attitudes toward Church and State
The Impact of Churches on Political Behavior: An Empirical Study
Evangelicals in the Post-Reagan Era: An Analysis of Evangelical Voters in the 1988 Presidential Election
Corwin Smidt, Paul Kellstedt, Evangelicals in the Post-Reagan Era: An Analysis of Evangelical Voters in the 1988 Presidential Election, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 330-338
Measuring Fundamentalism: An Analysis of Different Operational Strategies
While a variety of operational measures have been employed to identify fundamentalist respondents, little attention has been paid to assessing the effects of particular operational measures. Using data from a national survey containing several conventional measures of fundamentalism, this study analyzes (1) the extent to which these operational measures of fundamentalism are interrelated and tap the same facet of the concept, and (2) how these me…
"Praise the Lord" Politics: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Characteristics and Political Views of American Evangelical and Charismatic Christians
Journal Article “Praise the Lord” Politics: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Characteristics and Political Views of American Evangelical and Charismatic Christians Get access Corwin Smidt Corwin Smidt Calvin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 1989, Pages 53–72, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710918 Published: 01 March 1989
Evangelicals within Contemporary American Politics: Differentiating between Fundamentalist and Non-Fundamentalist Evangelicals
VER the past decade, political analysts have given renewed attention to the role of religion in American politics. One facet of this renewed attention has been an increased focus upon the political nature and electoral importance of American evangelical Christians. In fact, over the past several years, a great number of studies have emerged on the role of evangelicals in American politics (e.g., Lipset and Raab 1981; Fairbanks 1981; Guth 1981; Pa…
Civil religious orientations and children's perceptions of political authority
Religious Commitment, Political Conservatism, and Political and Social Tolerance in the United States: A Longitudinal Analysis
This paper seeks to clarify certain theoretical and empirical aspects of the nature of the relationships between political conservatism and religious commitment on the one hand and political and social intolerance on the other. Several conceptual problems associated with previous studies of the topic are noted, and data which circumvent such problems are analyzed in order to assess more adequately the true nature of the relationships under study
Civil Religious Orientations among Elementary School Children
This study focuses upon two major questions concerning civil religion in America: (1) When in life are civil religious orientations initially acquired? and (2) Are civil religious orientations associated with the acquisition of other social and political attitudes? Analysis of data based upon a survey of 825 elementary school children in downstate Illinois suggests that civil religious orientations are learned during childhood, that they are held…
Religion and Civic Engagement: A Comparative Analysis
This study examines the relationship between religious involvement and civic engagement in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective. Using data from a 1996 survey of 3000 Canadians and 3000 Americans, the study assesses religion's relative contribution to civic engagement in the two settings. The study reveals that both religious tradition and, more important, church attendance play an important role in fostering involvement in civil society in …
Measuring Fundamentalism: An Analysis of Different Operational Strategies
While a variety of operational measures have been employed to identify fundamentalist respondents, little attention has been paid to assessing the effects of particular operational measures. Using data from a national survey containing several conventional measures of fundamentalism, this study analyzes (1) the extent to which these operational measures of fundamentalism are interrelated and tap the same facet of the concept, and (2) how these me…
Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-county Study
This paper is the result of a nationwide study of polling place dynamics in the 2016 presidential election. Research teams, recruited from local colleges and universities and located in twenty-eight election jurisdictions across the United States, observed and timed voters as they entered the queue at their respective polling places and then voted. We report results about four specific polling place operations and practices: the length of the che…
Religious Commitment, Political Conservatism, and Political and Social Tolerance in the United States: A Longitudinal Analysis
This paper seeks to clarify certain theoretical and empirical aspects of the nature of the relationships between political conservatism and religious commitment on the one hand and political and social intolerance on the other. Several conceptual problems associated with previous studies of the topic are noted, and data which circumvent such problems are analyzed in order to assess more adequately the true nature of the relationships under study
Evangelicals within Contemporary American Politics: Differentiating between Fundamentalist and Non-Fundamentalist Evangelicals
VER the past decade, political analysts have given renewed attention to the role of religion in American politics. One facet of this renewed attention has been an increased focus upon the political nature and electoral importance of American evangelical Christians. In fact, over the past several years, a great number of studies have emerged on the role of evangelicals in American politics (e.g., Lipset and Raab 1981; Fairbanks 1981; Guth 1981; Pa…
The Political Attitudes and Activities of Mainline Protestant Clergy in the Election of 2000: A Study of Six Denominations
This study examines clergy across six mainline Protestant denominations in terms of their social characteristics, their theological positions, and their political attitudes and behavior. The analysis is based on data collected through random surveys of clergy in each denomination conducted in 2001 using the same instrument. The predominant focus of the article is on the nature and level of political activities exhibited by mainline Protestant cle…
Clergy in American Politics: An Introduction
"Praise the Lord" Politics: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Characteristics and Political Views of American Evangelical and Charismatic Christians
Journal Article “Praise the Lord” Politics: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Characteristics and Political Views of American Evangelical and Charismatic Christians Get access Corwin Smidt Corwin Smidt Calvin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 1989, Pages 53–72, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710918 Published: 01 March 1989
More Bang for the Buck: Campaign Spending and Fundraising Success
Can candidates spend their way into financial success? We propose that the 2007 presidential money primary offers unprecedented leverage to evaluate spending’s influence since it allows for sharper controls of confounding factors. Our results demonstrate that greater candidate spending on fundraising-related efforts is associated with significant future financial benefits. We estimate that, prior to the primaries, increases in spending have an eq…
Evangelicals in the Post-Reagan Era: An Analysis of Evangelical Voters in the 1988 Presidential Election
Corwin Smidt, Paul Kellstedt, Evangelicals in the Post-Reagan Era: An Analysis of Evangelical Voters in the 1988 Presidential Election, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 330-338
Civil religious orientations and children's perceptions of political authority
Civil Religious Orientations among Elementary School Children
This study focuses upon two major questions concerning civil religion in America: (1) When in life are civil religious orientations initially acquired? and (2) Are civil religious orientations associated with the acquisition of other social and political attitudes? Analysis of data based upon a survey of 825 elementary school children in downstate Illinois suggests that civil religious orientations are learned during childhood, that they are held…
Evaluating Legislative Districts Using Measures of Partisan Bias and Simulations
A well-developed body of research offers ways to measure the partisan advantages that result from legislative districting. Although useful to researchers and legal practitioners, those studies also suffer from theoretical, empirical, and legal limitations. In this essay, we review measures of partisan bias and methods for both simulating election results under existing maps and simulating hypothetical maps. We start by describing the concept of p…
Pedagogical Value of Polling-Place Observation by Students
Good education requires student experiences that deliver lessons about practice as well as theory and that encourage students to work for the public good—especially in the operation of democratic institutions (Dewey 1923; Dewy 1938). We report on an evaluation of the pedagogical value of a research project involving 23 colleges and universities across the country. Faculty trained and supervised students who observed polling places in the 2016 Gen…
Civil Religious Orientations among Elementary School Children
This study focuses upon two major questions concerning civil religion in America: (1) When in life are civil religious orientations initially acquired? and (2) Are civil religious orientations associated with the acquisition of other social and political attitudes? Analysis of data based upon a survey of 825 elementary school children in downstate Illinois suggests that civil religious orientations are learned during childhood, that they are held…
Civil religious orientations and children's perceptions of political authority
Religious Commitment, Political Conservatism, and Political and Social Tolerance in the United States: A Longitudinal Analysis
This paper seeks to clarify certain theoretical and empirical aspects of the nature of the relationships between political conservatism and religious commitment on the one hand and political and social intolerance on the other. Several conceptual problems associated with previous studies of the topic are noted, and data which circumvent such problems are analyzed in order to assess more adequately the true nature of the relationships under study
Evangelicals within Contemporary American Politics: Differentiating between Fundamentalist and Non-Fundamentalist Evangelicals
VER the past decade, political analysts have given renewed attention to the role of religion in American politics. One facet of this renewed attention has been an increased focus upon the political nature and electoral importance of American evangelical Christians. In fact, over the past several years, a great number of studies have emerged on the role of evangelicals in American politics (e.g., Lipset and Raab 1981; Fairbanks 1981; Guth 1981; Pa…
"Praise the Lord" Politics: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Characteristics and Political Views of American Evangelical and Charismatic Christians
Journal Article “Praise the Lord” Politics: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Characteristics and Political Views of American Evangelical and Charismatic Christians Get access Corwin Smidt Corwin Smidt Calvin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 1989, Pages 53–72, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710918 Published: 01 March 1989
Measuring Fundamentalism: An Analysis of Different Operational Strategies
While a variety of operational measures have been employed to identify fundamentalist respondents, little attention has been paid to assessing the effects of particular operational measures. Using data from a national survey containing several conventional measures of fundamentalism, this study analyzes (1) the extent to which these operational measures of fundamentalism are interrelated and tap the same facet of the concept, and (2) how these me…
Evangelicals in the Post-Reagan Era: An Analysis of Evangelical Voters in the 1988 Presidential Election
Corwin Smidt, Paul Kellstedt, Evangelicals in the Post-Reagan Era: An Analysis of Evangelical Voters in the 1988 Presidential Election, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1992), pp. 330-338
The Impact of Churches on Political Behavior: An Empirical Study
Public Attitudes toward Church and State
Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics, by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox
Journal Article Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics Get access Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 304 pp. $32.95. Corwin Smidt Corwin Smidt Calvin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 112, Issue 4, Winter 1997, Pages 717–718, https://do…
Religion and Civic Engagement: A Comparative Analysis
This study examines the relationship between religious involvement and civic engagement in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective. Using data from a 1996 survey of 3000 Canadians and 3000 Americans, the study assesses religion's relative contribution to civic engagement in the two settings. The study reveals that both religious tradition and, more important, church attendance play an important role in fostering involvement in civil society in …
The Political Activities of Reformed Clergy in the UnitedStates and Scotland
This paper examines Reformed clergy across two different settings-the United States and Scotland in an effort to determine how theological orthodoxy is related to political participation. The paper demonstrates that (1) clergy in both settings tend to be politically active (2) the level of clergy political activity tends to be greater in the United States than in Scotland (3) the relationship between orthodoxy and political activity is complex, v…
New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America
New Day Begun presents the findings of the first major research project on black churches' civic involvement since C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya's landmark study Black Church in the African American Experience. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the scale and scope of African American churches' civic involvement have changed significantly: the number of African American clergy serving in elect…
The Political Attitudes and Activities of Mainline Protestant Clergy in the Election of 2000: A Study of Six Denominations
This study examines clergy across six mainline Protestant denominations in terms of their social characteristics, their theological positions, and their political attitudes and behavior. The analysis is based on data collected through random surveys of clergy in each denomination conducted in 2001 using the same instrument. The predominant focus of the article is on the nature and level of political activities exhibited by mainline Protestant cle…
Clergy in American Politics: An Introduction
More Bang for the Buck: Campaign Spending and Fundraising Success
Can candidates spend their way into financial success? We propose that the 2007 presidential money primary offers unprecedented leverage to evaluate spending’s influence since it allows for sharper controls of confounding factors. Our results demonstrate that greater candidate spending on fundraising-related efforts is associated with significant future financial benefits. We estimate that, prior to the primaries, increases in spending have an eq…
Pedagogical Value of Polling-Place Observation by Students
Good education requires student experiences that deliver lessons about practice as well as theory and that encourage students to work for the public good—especially in the operation of democratic institutions (Dewey 1923; Dewy 1938). We report on an evaluation of the pedagogical value of a research project involving 23 colleges and universities across the country. Faculty trained and supervised students who observed polling places in the 2016 Gen…
Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-county Study
This paper is the result of a nationwide study of polling place dynamics in the 2016 presidential election. Research teams, recruited from local colleges and universities and located in twenty-eight election jurisdictions across the United States, observed and timed voters as they entered the queue at their respective polling places and then voted. We report results about four specific polling place operations and practices: the length of the che…
Evaluating Legislative Districts Using Measures of Partisan Bias and Simulations
A well-developed body of research offers ways to measure the partisan advantages that result from legislative districting. Although useful to researchers and legal practitioners, those studies also suffer from theoretical, empirical, and legal limitations. In this essay, we review measures of partisan bias and methods for both simulating election results under existing maps and simulating hypothetical maps. We start by describing the concept of p…
Catholics and the 2020 Presidential Election
This article examines the role of Catholics within the 2020 presidential election in the United States. Although Catholics were once a crucial and dependable component of the Democratic Party’s electoral coalition, their vote in more recent years has been much more splintered. Nevertheless, Catholics have been deemed to be an important “swing vote” in American politics today, as in recent presidential elections they have aligned with the national…
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