Are priests politically active asks Fulbright Scholar
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Are priests politically active asks Fulbright Scholar
18.10.2010
UCC’s Department of Government is pleased to host a visit by Fulbright Scholar, Dr Elizabeth Oldmixon to the university during the first term of the 2010/2011 academic year.
During her time at UCC, Dr Oldmixon is investigating the influence of religious interests and elites on policymaking. Building on previous work focused on American clergy, she is developing a national survey of Catholic priests in Ireland that explores their ability and inclination to facilitate political mobilization and politicize salient aspects of Church teaching. She is also writing an essay that compares the policy development of abortion and gay rights in the United States and Ireland.

Elizabeth A. Oldmixon (PhD, University of Florida, 2001) is associate professor of political science at the University of North Texas. She is also a fellow at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Summer Institute at Brandeis University and formerly an American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow (2001-2002).

Her research interests include religion and legislative policymaking, political activism among clergy, and the political implications of religious cleavages among Latinos. Along with her co-author, William Hudson, she is winner of the 2007 Paul J. Weber Award for the Best Paper in Religion and Politics. Her work has appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Research Quarterly, and she is author of Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, and the US House of Representatives (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005).

Picture:  Fulbright Scholar, Dr Elizabeth Oldmixon

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