This chapter now analyses the data from the latest round of the World Values Survey from the perspective of the analysis of the observance of the Ten Commandments by citizens around the world presented in Chapters 1 and 2 . The focus is on the development of a non-parametric index of this observance, as presented in Chapter 3 of this book. In addition to the country analysis of the sociological change in the observance of the Ten Commandments from the Global South and Global East to the secular Global North, we are particularly interested in the perspective of how the various political parties around the world—from the populist Right to the traditional and libertarian and probably also libertine Left—can be mapped on these non-parametric scales in terms of their observance of the Ten Commandments. Constitutive of this is also the idea, that the rise of the global political right is likely to be linked to a socio-cultural ‘overburdening’ of the traditional working class of the Global North by the agenda of a more radical change in values promoted by the political left. The ten best performers are all countries of the Global South, and Romania is still the country with the best performance among the European Union and NATO countries, and Puerto Rico, had the best performance of all the countries of the Americas. Of the ten worst performers, only one country—Vietnam—belongs to the Global South. We note the rather poor performance of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and most countries of Northern and Western Europe, while Romania, some West Balkan countries, Poland, Italy and Portugal as well as the United States have not “given up on God” as rapidly as the already mentioned key Western allies such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and most countries of Northern and Western Europe. Seen from the perspective of the Index and the expectations of the major religious communities around the world, it clearly emerges that the weakest average performance of the entire population of the United States is in the field of sexual morality and family morality, while the average performance of the United States regarding economic morality is much better. We also analyse the performance on the non-parametric Index of Religious Morality of some very well-known and often featured right-wing populist parties that pose a major challenge to the political system in their countries and the entire Free World. The supporters of the Republicans in the United States have a far better performance on the Religious Morality Index than the Democrats, while in France the Socialists and the National Front are neck and neck and the left-wing populists are 0.10 points behind them. In Germany, the right-wing populist AfD is trailing behind the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats. In Austria, the SPÖ is ahead of the far-right FPÖ by 0.01 points. The lowest compliance with the moral teachings preached by the world’s religious communities can be found in the Spanish left-wing populist party Podemos. As a general trend, it can be said that the left-wing populist and green parties in some ways hark back to the legacy of 1968, and fare worse on the Index of Religious Morality than the traditional left-wing parties (i.e. social democrats and communists), whose history extends well into the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.

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Empirical Results Based on the Non-parametric Index of Religious Morality

  • Arno Tausch

摘要

This chapter now analyses the data from the latest round of the World Values Survey from the perspective of the analysis of the observance of the Ten Commandments by citizens around the world presented in Chapters 1 and 2 . The focus is on the development of a non-parametric index of this observance, as presented in Chapter 3 of this book. In addition to the country analysis of the sociological change in the observance of the Ten Commandments from the Global South and Global East to the secular Global North, we are particularly interested in the perspective of how the various political parties around the world—from the populist Right to the traditional and libertarian and probably also libertine Left—can be mapped on these non-parametric scales in terms of their observance of the Ten Commandments. Constitutive of this is also the idea, that the rise of the global political right is likely to be linked to a socio-cultural ‘overburdening’ of the traditional working class of the Global North by the agenda of a more radical change in values promoted by the political left. The ten best performers are all countries of the Global South, and Romania is still the country with the best performance among the European Union and NATO countries, and Puerto Rico, had the best performance of all the countries of the Americas. Of the ten worst performers, only one country—Vietnam—belongs to the Global South. We note the rather poor performance of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and most countries of Northern and Western Europe, while Romania, some West Balkan countries, Poland, Italy and Portugal as well as the United States have not “given up on God” as rapidly as the already mentioned key Western allies such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and most countries of Northern and Western Europe. Seen from the perspective of the Index and the expectations of the major religious communities around the world, it clearly emerges that the weakest average performance of the entire population of the United States is in the field of sexual morality and family morality, while the average performance of the United States regarding economic morality is much better. We also analyse the performance on the non-parametric Index of Religious Morality of some very well-known and often featured right-wing populist parties that pose a major challenge to the political system in their countries and the entire Free World. The supporters of the Republicans in the United States have a far better performance on the Religious Morality Index than the Democrats, while in France the Socialists and the National Front are neck and neck and the left-wing populists are 0.10 points behind them. In Germany, the right-wing populist AfD is trailing behind the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats. In Austria, the SPÖ is ahead of the far-right FPÖ by 0.01 points. The lowest compliance with the moral teachings preached by the world’s religious communities can be found in the Spanish left-wing populist party Podemos. As a general trend, it can be said that the left-wing populist and green parties in some ways hark back to the legacy of 1968, and fare worse on the Index of Religious Morality than the traditional left-wing parties (i.e. social democrats and communists), whose history extends well into the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.