PARTY PREFERENCES OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS, OR WHY THE RUSSIAN CATHOLICS VOTED FOR «YABLOKO» AND LDPR IN 2011

Author: BOGACHEV M.I.

Communicology. 2016. v.4, n.5
BOGACHEV Maxim Igorevich – Junior Research Fellow in National Research University Higher School of Economics, PhD student of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).

Abstract: Article is devoted to studying of party preferences of various religious groups of Russians. The author conducts survey on the Internet and analyzes its results, focusing attention on the electoral choice of the Russian Catholics. The researcher explains specific party preferences of Catholics at parliamentary elections of 2011 by influence of a religious factor.

Key words: sociology of religion, political science of religion, Catholicism, political preferences, electoral preferences, politics and religion.

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