Michael Hout
Mike Hout is a professor of sociology and demography at UC-Berkeley. He uses demographic methods to study non-demographic topics like social inequality, voting, and religion. His recent books are Century of Difference: How American Changed in the Last One Hundred Years (with Claude Fischer, Russell Sage, 2006) and The Truth About Conservative Christians (with Andrew Greeley, University of Chicago Press, 2006). Mike is currently a visiting scholar at the Office of Population Research, Princeton. He will return to Berkeley in time for the Fall 2008 semester.
Posts by Michael Hout:
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Who are evangelical voters supporting in the 2008 primary season? The facile assumption is to look for them in the Huckabee camp. No doubt many are to be found there. Consensus has it that conservative Protestants got Huckabee his win in the Iowa caucuses. And since then the choice between Huckabee and Romney sure went Huckabee’s way more often than not. But the research on conservative Protestant politics makes me doubt that the story ends with Huckabee. [...]
Read the rest of The evangelical vote.
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