Explaining Why Some Muslims Support Islamist Political Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4285040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Christine Fair (0000-0002-6240-3863, Georgetown University), Parina Patel (Brookings Institution) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-276 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1002/polq.12897 |
| OpenAlex | W2962123034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH evidences considerable but varied support for Islamist terrorist tactics among the world’s Muslim populations. According to 2014 data from the Pew Research Center, 47 percent and 46 percent of Bangladeshi and Lebanese respondents, respectively, approved of suicide bombing, compared with only 5 percent and 3 percent of Tunisian and Pakistani respondents, respectively.1 This support is theoretically and practically important because public support for terrorism may explain where terrorist events occur, although the precise mechanism for this predictive utility is disputed.2 For this and other empirical and theoretical reasons, scholars have sought to identify respondent-level determinants of support for suicide bombings and other forms of Islamist political violence.3 Political scientists have studied the posited correlation between support for political violence and an array of respondent-level factors, including ethnicity,4 perceived and actual socioeconomic status, dimensions of education and human capital,5 facets of belief and practice such as piety,6 knowledge of Islam,7 and exposure to violence,8 among other individual-level factors such as attitudes toward American culture and U.S. foreign policy9 and political dissatisfaction.10
Criminology · Ethnic group · Geography · Islam · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Population · Public opinion · Public relations · Public support · Respondent · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Terrorism · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · Demography · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |