[Book Review: The Diminishing Divide: Religion's Changing Role in American Politics and The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics]

2002 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-636
Author(s):  
Frank Newport
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Cultural Conflict ◽  
Great Divide ◽  
American Party ◽  
Changing Role

The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics By Geoffrey Layman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 435p. $49.50 cloth, $22.50 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 644-645
Author(s):  
Ted G. Jelen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Party System ◽  
System Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Systematic Fashion ◽  
Party Realignment ◽  
Great Divide ◽  
American Party

Analysts of religion and American politics have been awaiting this book for some time. In The Great Divide, Geoffrey Layman brings together two strands of research in American political behavior in an elegant, systematic fashion: the study of party system change (often described as the literature on “party realignment”) and the analysis of religion in politics in the United States (long something of an esoteric speciality within political science). While Layman is not first to address the connection between the pew and the precinct, his impressive effort is at this point the authoritative source on religion and contemporary party politics.

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