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The research presented in this paper attempts to explore the relationship between religious and political attitudes. More specifically we investigate how religious behavior, in terms of belief intensity and practice frequency, is related to specific patterns of political behavior such as ideology, understanding democracy and his set of moral values. The analysis is based on the use of multivariable methods and more specifically Hierarchical Cluster Analysis and Multiple Correspondence Analysis in two steps. The findings are based on a survey implemented in 2019 on a sample of 506 respondents in the wider area of Thessaloniki, Greece. The aim of the research is to highlight the role of people’s religious practice intensity in shaping their political views by displaying the profiles resulting from the analysis and linking individual religious and political characteristics as measured with various variables. The final output of the analysis is a map where all variable categories are visualized, bringing forward models of political behavior as associated together with other factors such as religion, moral values and democratic attitudes.
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Panagiotidou, G., Chadjipadelis, T. (2023). Political and Religion Attitudes in Greece: Behavioral Discourses. In: Brito, P., Dias, J.G., Lausen, B., Montanari, A., Nugent, R. (eds) Classification and Data Science in the Digital Age. IFCS 2022. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09034-9_31
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