Explores a crucial question in American national politics: How durable is the close connection between the GOP and the evangelical movement?

Paul A. Djupe teaches Political Science at Denison University. He is the coauthor of God Talk: Experimenting with the Religious Causes of Public Opinion with Brian R. Calfano and the editor of Religion and Political Tolerance: Advances in the State of the Art (both Temple). He is also the editor of the Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series with Temple.  Ryan L. Claassen is a Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. He is the author of Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans?: Party Activists, Party Capture, and the ‘God Gap’.