Emily R. Martinez is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in comparative politics with a regional focus on Western Europe. Her research sits at the intersection of religion and politics, examining church-state relations, religious authority, and the politics of secularization in advanced democracies. Her current work develops a comparative study of religious institutions and political influence in the United States and the United Kingdom, investigating how churches retain authority under conditions
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