Dr. Robert P. Jones, PRRI CEO, and Daniel Cox, PRRI Research Director, will be speaking on a panel at the Midwest Political Science Association, titled “Religion and Values in the 2012 Elections Roundtable: A Post-Election Analysis of the Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Survey”

Panelists: Robert Jones, PRRI; Dan Cox, PRRI; Melissa Deckman, Washington College; Laura Olson, Clemson Universutyl and Kerem Ozan Kalkan, Middle East Technical University.

Description: This roundtable will feature Staff and Affiliated Scholars with the Public Religion Research Institute, who will offer an empirical analysis of the role of religion in the 2012 elections through an examination of PRRI’s 2012 American Values Survey.

Abstract: What was the religious breakdown of the 2012 presidential vote? Were there discernible changes in religious cleavages during this election cycle? Did Mitt Romney’s Mormonism have a discernible impact on the outcome of the election? What role did Catholic and former Catholic voters play in the election? Special attention will be devoted to the voting patterns of the religiously unaffiliated and the end of the White Christian strategy as a viable presidential voting coalition in the GOP. This roundtable will feature Staff and Affiliated Scholars with the Public Religion Research Institute, who will offer an empirical analysis of the role of religion in the 2012 elections through an examination of PRRI’s 2012 American Values Survey, a large pre- and post- election survey (n=3,000 pre-election; n=1,400 post-election) that examines vote choice in the 2012 presidential elections by religion, values, and standard socioeconomic status variables.