Graduation Year
2019
Date of Submission
5-2019
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Government
Reader 1
Giorgi Areshidze
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2019 Robert B Dobie
Abstract
This paper analyses the circumstances that allowed for faith to play such an outsized role in the 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election compared to others in the past, investigates the ongoing relationship between faith and politics in Tennessee, and considers whether or not the inclusion faith in our politics is healthy for government and healthy for politics. It finds that the decline of centrism and the inclusion of issues of sex and the family in Tennessee politics has created a political atmosphere in which faith has become a winning cause, and that although faith has been shown to increase democratic participation among some political coalitions, it may also deepen partisan divisions.
Recommended Citation
Dobie, Robert, "The Ballot and the Bible: an Examination of the Role that Faith Played in the 2018 Tennessee Gubernatorial Election" (2019). CMC Senior Theses. 2141.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2141
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
