Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization

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Luca Ozzano (University of Turin, Italy) Francesco Cavatorta (University of Laval, Canada)

Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization

Luca Ozzano (University of Turin, Italy), Francesco Cavatorta (University of Laval, Canada)

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Routledge
14 October 2024

Religion & politics; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Elections & referenda; Political structures: democracy; Political parties

Series: Democratization Special Issues

To the surprise of both academics and policy-makers, religion has not been relegated entirely to the private sphere; quite the contrary. Over the last few decades, religion has begun to play a significant role in public affairs and, in many cases, directly in political systems. This edited volume analyses in detail how religion and religious precepts inform the ideology, strategies and electoral behaviour of political parties. Working with an original and innovative typology of religiously oriented political parties, the book examines cases from different regions of the world and different religious traditions to highlight the significance of religion for party politics. This interest for religiously oriented parties is combined with an interest in processes of democratic change and democratic consolidation. Political parties are central to the success of processes of democratization while religion is seen in many circles as an element that prevents such success because it is perceived to be a polarising factor detrimental to the consensus necessary to build a liberal-democratic system. Through the different case-studies presented here, a much more complex picture emerges, where religiously oriented political parties perform very different and often contradicting roles with respect to democratic change.

This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.

Edited by: Luca Ozzano (University of Turin Italy), Francesco Cavatorta (University of Laval, Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781032928548
ISBN 10: 1032928549
Series: Democratization Special Issues
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: religiously oriented parties and democratization 2. The many faces of the political god: a typology of religiously oriented parties 3. The perils of polarization and religious parties: the democratic challenges of political fragmentation in Israel and Turkey 4. Moderation through exclusion? The journey of the Tunisian Ennahda from fundamentalist to conservative party 5. Refining the moderation thesis. Two religious parties and Indian democracy: the Jana Sangh and the BJP between Hindutva radicalism and coalition politics 6. Ahab and the white whale: the contemporary debate around the forms of Catholic political commitment in Italy 7. Religious parties in Chile: the Christian Democratic Party and the Independent Democratic Union 8. Religion and democratization in Northern Ireland: is religion actually ethnicity in disguise? 9. Conclusion: reassessing the relation between religion, political actors, and democratization

Luca Ozzano is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Turin, in Italy. His research focuses on the relation between religion and democracy, both in theoretical terms, and in relation to case studies such as Italy and Turkey. Francesco Cavatorta is Associate Professor of Political Science at Université Laval in Québec, Canada. His research broadly focuses on the politics of the Arab world and specifically on Islamist movements, Islamist parties and democratization.