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 abstract Secularisation in the Netherlands. Reassessing Cultural Value Orientations and their Impact on Voting Behaviour. Drawing upon problems of interpretation in political sociological research, this article questions the common practice to lump together moral traditionalism and authoritarianism. First, it is demonstrated that only moral traditionalism relates to religious orthodoxy. Second, the well-established strong correlation between both value orientations proves solely caused by the circumstance that non-traditionalism and non-authoritarianism go hand in hand: moral traditionalism and authoritarianism are almost unrelated. Third, moral traditionalists are shown to vote for Christian right-wing parties, whereas authoritarianism leads to a vote for a secular right-wing party. Fourth, whereas moral traditionalism proves decisive for the voting behaviour of Christians, it is authoritarianism that underlies the non-Christian vote. These findings, which are consistent with theories on cultural modernisation, lead to the conclusion that attention should be paid to the distinction between these orientations because this aids the interpretation of research findings, and because it is likely that authoritarianism will gain a more central role in politics at the cost of moral traditionalism.
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