ENGL 1223 Lecture 6: Example of student summary (1)
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This article investigates the existence of a relationship between religion and voting in the. The authors reviewed the results of congressional voting on welfare, defense spending, and tax cutting between 1969 and 2013. Democratic party want to increase taxes and decrease defense spending in order to fund welfare programs. On the other hand, most republicans want to support defense spending while decreasing welfare and taxes. The authors then compared voting between religious members within a party with respect to the party overall and also voting between members of different parties but the same religion. For example, they analyzed how republican catholics vote on defense spending in comparison to how the republican party over all votes on the same issue. Democratic catholics vote about defense spending in comparison to the democratic party over all. The results show that catholic legislators are less likely to support war defense even in the.
