Gutenberg Open Science: The links between basic human values and political secularism : evidence from Germany

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dc.contributor.author	Arzheimer, Kai	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-26T10:27:24Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-06-26T10:27:24Z	-
dc.date.issued	2023	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/9244	-
dc.description.abstract	Scholarly interest in political secularism is currently growing. Political secularism is not the absence of religious belief, membership or practice, but the conviction that politics and religion should be kept separate and that religious arguments should have no standing in political debates. Little is known about the roots of this attitude, particularly outside the United States. This is unfortunate because politically secular attitudes strongly affect citizens' views on so-called morality policies (e.g. the regulation of abortion, assisted suicide or experiments with stem cells) which are often highly controversial. In this research note, I focus on the link between political secularism and basic human values. From Schwartz's own work and from the extant literature on religion, secularism and basic human values, I derive two hypotheses: self-direction should be linked to higher levels, and tradition should be linked to lower levels of political secularism. Multivariate analysis of current survey data from Germany, a prototypical ‘religious-world country’, supports both hypotheses. Crucially, the relationships hold when controlling for three main facets of religion, for region (east vs west), and for socio-demographics. The results show that net of their well-documented association with religion, basic human values contribute to our understanding of political secularism. More generally, the findings demonstrate once more the impact of basic human values on all areas of political life.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)\|491381577\|Open-Access-Publikationskosten 2022–2024 Universität Mainz - Universitätsmedizin	-
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	320 Politik	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	320 Political science	en_GB
dc.title	The links between basic human values and political secularism : evidence from Germany	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9227	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport	de
jgu.organisation.number	7910	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	European journal of political research	de
jgu.journal.volume	Version of Record (VoR)	de
jgu.pages.alternative	e202300165	de
jgu.publisher.year	2023	-
jgu.publisher.name	Wiley-Blackwell	de
jgu.publisher.place	Oxford	de
jgu.publisher.issn	0304-4130	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	320	de
dc.date.updated	2023-06-07T07:56:50Z	-
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1111/1475-6765.12585	de
elements.object.id	153633	-
elements.object.labels	Religion	-
elements.object.labels	Morality Politics	-
elements.object.labels	Political Secularism	-
elements.object.labels	Basic Human Values	-
elements.object.labels	Germany	-
elements.object.labels	1606 Political Science	-
elements.object.labels	Political Science & Public Administration	-
elements.object.labels	4408 Political science	-
elements.object.type	journal-article	-
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
jgu.subject.dfg	Lebenswissenschaften	de
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