Název: For God, Tsar and Fatherland? The political influence of Church
Autoři: Travova, Ekaterina
Typ dokumentu: Výzkumné zprávy
Rok: 2022
Jazyk: eng
Edice: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, svazek: 722
Abstrakt: This paper investigates the influence of the Orthodox Church network in Post-Soviet Russia on individual political preferences and election results. I use the numbers of monks and nuns from Orthodox monasteries operated in the Russian Empire before the Revolution as historical religious markers to construct a Bartik-style instrument (1991). I find that a denser Church network increases the average local approval rating for the current president and the share of votes cast for the government candidate in presidential elections. Further analysis of mechanisms shows that, today, the extending Church network is increasingly less able to attract people to attend church and to substantially increase the share of practicing believers. However, it does affect the political preferences of those who, regardless of their faith in God, self-identify as Orthodox. The potential channel for persuasion is media.
Klíčová slova: approval; Church; Orthodoxy

Instituce: Národohospodářský ústav AV ČR (web)
Informace o dostupnosti dokumentu: Dokument je dostupný na externích webových stránkách.
Externí umístění souboru: https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp722.pdf
Původní záznam: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0331390

Trvalý odkaz NUŠL: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-508589


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