caa a22 4500 475800591 CHVBK 20180406123736.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1006614916714 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1006614916714 The Spirit of Capitalism? Religious Doctrine, Values, and Economic Attitude Constructs [Elektronische Daten] [David Barker, Christopher Carman] This article examines the relationship between conservative Protestant doctrine and economic policy attitudes. Building upon Weber's (1930) classic (and controversial) thesis that Calvinist thought inspired the "capitalist spirit,” we posit that the individualistic theology of fundamentalists, evangelicals, and charismatics often engenders political preferences for individualistic economic policies. We test this hypothesis by (1) performing a series of cross-sectional ordered probit analyses to understand the independent degree of association between doctrinal belief and economic attitudes toward taxing, spending, and the role of government, (2) creating and testing a structural equation model to assess various hypothesized paths of influence, and finally, (3) using 1994-96 NES panel data to assess the degree to which changes in an individual's doctrinal beliefs produce changes in his or her economic attitudes. Results lend substantial support to the efficacy of Weber's thesis, and point to religious belief as one exogenous agent of core political values. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Barker David University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA aut Carman Christopher University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Political Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/1(2000-03-01), 1-27 0190-9320 22:1<1 2000 22 11109 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006614916714 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006614916714 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Barker David University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carman Christopher University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Political Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/1(2000-03-01), 1-27 0190-9320 22:1<1 2000 22 11109 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer