New article "After secularisation? A comparative analysis of religious cleavages in Western Europe"

Our paper on "After secularisation? A comparative analysis of religious cleavages in Western Europe" is now published as open access by the European Journal of Political Research (Elff et al. 2026)

Change in vote probabilities for a moderately religious conservative party

Change in vote probabilities for a moderately religious conservative party

In this paper, we (i.e. Ruth Dassonneville, Kamil Marcinkiewicz, and myself) examine wether secularisation has lead to a decrease or increase in voting differences between religious and non-religious voters and whether Catholic/Protestant differences have weakened as often expected on the base of the sularisation and cleavage decline literature. We find that voting differences along these lines are still present in the 20th century and seem to even have increased. We also find that non-Christians are more similar in their voting behaviour than citizes without a religious affiliation.

More about the paper an be found here.