{"id":29752,"date":"2024-01-22T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T21:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29752"},"modified":"2024-01-22T16:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T21:59:37","slug":"nyt-opinion-contributor-cites-work-by-furmans-jim-guth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nyt-opinion-contributor-cites-work-by-furmans-jim-guth\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT opinion contributor cites work by Furman&#8217;s Jim Guth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/17\/opinion\/trump-god-evangelicals-anointed.html?searchResultPosition=1\">The New York Times<\/a> opinion contributor Thomas B. Edsall leans on research by Furman University&#8217;s Jim Guth, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Politics and International Affairs, to explain the &#8220;deification of Donal Trump&#8221; among white evangelical Christian voters. Edsall liberally cites Guth&#8217;s 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15570274.2019.1643991\">paper<\/a>, \u201cAre White Evangelicals Populists? The View From the 2016 American National Election Study,\u201d that appeared in The Review of Faith &amp; International Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Edsall contributes a weekly column to the NYT from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. Guth is a specialist in American politics. His recent work has assessed the impact of religion on the electoral process and on public policy in the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. Guth holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctorate from Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>A subscription may be required to view the full article. Furman ID holders may access the content through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do white evangelical voters really deify Donald Trump, or is the relationship between voters and Trump more transactional? Opinion columnist Edsall draws from Guth&#8217;s work to answer some difficult questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,52,32,134],"tags":[704,2205,2250],"class_list":["post-29752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-library","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-new-york-times","tag-donald-trump","tag-politics-and-religion","tag-white-evangelical-voters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}