Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocac. Baldwin, Baldwin, Hardcover**

Name: Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocac. Baldwin, Baldwin, Hardcover**
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Faith in DemocracyThe Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa\nAuthor(s): Kate Baldwin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009391658, 978-1009391658\nSynopsis\nWhy have some churches in Africa engaged in advocacy for stronger liberal democratic institutions while others have not? Faith in Democracy explores this question, emphasizing the benefits of liberal democratic protections for some churches. The book explains how churches' historic investments create different autocratic risk exposure, as states can more easily regulate certain activities including social service provision than others. In situations where churches have invested in schools as part of their evangelization activities, which create high autocratic risk, churches have incentives to defend liberal democratic institutions to protect their control over them. This theory also explains how church fisc.