Religion, Risk and Legal Culture

Balancing Human Rights against a ‘War on Terror’

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12607289
AutoresWilliam L Miller (0000-0002-9957-1211, University of Glasgow, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen13
Número4
Páginas514-533
Fecha de publicación2011-04-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe British Journal of Politics and International Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-1481 • E-ISSN: 1467-856X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-856x.2011.00453.x
OpenAlexW1546219517
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas9

‘Legal cultures’ in European countries have been under the twin pressures of moves towards ‘European and international standards’ on the one hand, and the ‘war on terror’ on the other—the first exerting pressure in a liberal direction, the second exerting pressure in an authoritarian direction. Data from focus groups and interviews with the general public and Muslim minorities provide insight into how the public in general, and Muslims in particular, have responded to the pressure of terrorism and the ‘war on terror’ in a spectrum of five countries ranging across Europe. Muslims have very different attitudes towards paying the price of the so-called ‘war on terror’, but our study suggests that attitudes towards that price are directly influenced more by ‘risk assessment’ than by religion

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Human rights · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Terrorism · War on terror · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence