Religion and party activists a "perfect storm" of polarization or a recipe for pragmatism?

Religion and Democracy in the United States: Danger or Opportunity?

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 212-251

  Layman, Geoffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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