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Contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction \ Steven Brint and Jean Reith Schroedel -- Part I. Evangelicals' Identity and Activism -- Chapter 1. The Cultural Capital of American Evangelicalism \ Robert Wuthnow -- Chapter 2. American Evangelicals in American Culture: Continuity and Change \ Nancy T. Ammerman -- Chapter 3. Conservative Protestantism in the United States? Toward a Comparative and Historical Perspective \ Philip S. Gorski -- Part II. Evangelicals and Intergroup Relations

Contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction \ Jean Reith Schroedel and Steven Brint -- Part I. Christian Conservatives and Partisan Politics -- Chapter 1. A Global Perspective: U.S. Exceptionalism (Again?) \ Pippa Norris -- Chapter 2. Interests, Values, and Party Identification between 1972 and 2006 \ Michael Hout and Andrew Greeley -- Chapter 3. Voting Your Values \ Wayne E. Baker and Connie J. Boudens -- Chapter 4. Moral-Values Politics: The Emergence of an Electoral System \ Steven Brint and Seth Abrutyn -- Part II. Discourses of Mobilization and Public Reason

The success of US universities has derived from high levels of investment by the federal government, private donors, and individual families, combined with the propulsive force of three ultimately compatible "logics of development": academic professionalism, technological innovation, and social inclusion. The recent history of US universities provides lessons on how to build top-tier universities and manage relations with industry. It also provides warnings about the potential for deleterious consequences when universities fail to properly manage the incorporation of underrepresented groups and undervalue undergraduate teaching.

Using pooled data from the 2000-2004 National Election Studies, we compare the explanatory power of five competing explanations for the links between membership in theologically conservative Protestant denominations and right-of-center political attitudes. These explanations focus, respectively, on: (1) religiosity, (2) moral absolutism, (3) family ideology, (4) class culture, and (5) cultural geography. Moral absolutism is the strongest explanation for conservative political attitudes, both for whites affiliated with theologically conservative Protestant denominations, and for members of other religious traditions. ; Non UBC ; Arts, Faculty of ; Sociology, Department of ; Reviewed ; Faculty