Quantifying Religion and State: Round Two of the Religion and State Project

In: Politics and religion: official journal of the APSA Organized Section on Religion and Politics, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 444-452

Abstract

AbstractThe religion and state project is intended to develop and create a set of measures that systematically gauge government religion policy. Round 2 of the religion and state dataset will include 147 variables for 176 states. This update (1) describes the methodology and reasoning behind the new coding, (2) describes the changes between Round 1 and Round 2, (3) compares the religion and state variables to other religion data collections, and (4) discusses the potential significance of this data collection