A Secularization of Cultural Politics? Changing Patterns of Cultural-Political Polarization and Voting Behavior in Western Europe, 1981-2017 KU Leuven
This project studies transformations of cultural politics in Western Europe in the last four decades. Whereas the ‘new’ cultural cleavage is typically viewed as pitting broadly culturally conservative individuals against their broadly culturally progressive counterparts, this thesis suggests that there are two types of cultural value dimensions lumped together, one religious and one secular. The religious value dimension is moral ...