Confessie, inkomen en politieke-partijkeuze, 1964-1992

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Data from 1,098 independent, national Dutch cross sections (N=814,912) are used to track trends in the influence of religious affiliation and income position on political party choice from 1964 to 1992. Multinomial logit analysis shows a marginal decline in the weak effect of income but a massive downfall in the strong effect of denomination. The downward trends have not been uniform across denomination, income group, and time however. The most spectacular decays occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, when the minor gaps between low and high-income groups weakened and the once massive differentials between Catholics, Re reformed Protestants, and nonaffiliates collapsed. Many of the widespread shifts slowed down appreciably in the late 1970s and subsequently abated in the mid-1980s. These trends coincide with macro-level socioeconomic changes and this finding lends credibility to the thesis that modernisation has contributed to deconftssionalisation and that income effects represent, in part, feedbacks to changes in the income distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; Copyright of Mens en Maatschappij is the property of Amsterdam University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)