Religion and electoral behavior in Russia: regional dimension
Keywords:
voting behavior, religion and politics, religiosityAbstract
The paper analyzes regional diversity of the relationship between religiosity and the voting behavior in Russia in the 2010s. The existing studies of the Russian case demonstrate that there is a correlation to a certain extent; however, there are no studies focused on the regional level. The results of the statistical analysis based on a religious survey, conducted by the research group SREDA, show a correlation between religiosity and the outcome of the federal elections in 2011–2012. Religiosity is positively associated with voting for the party “United Russia” in 2011 and for Vladimir Putin in 2012. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2017-4-26-48References
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