The Diffusion of Exclusion
Medieval Expulsions of Jews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6246603 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kerice Doten-Snitker (0000-0002-7552-7232, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1428-1461 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4140 • E-ISSN: 1552-3829 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00104140241269956 |
| OpenAlex | W4401973965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 108 |
What social processes guide the spread of ethnic or racial exclusion? I investigate the diffusion of medieval expulsions of Jews among over 500 polities in the western Holy Roman Empire, 1385–1520 CE. For medieval governors, religious and material concerns were strong rationales against expulsion. Yet expulsions increase markedly in the 15th century. Did an expulsion by one government affect another government’s choices about expulsion? I appraise three common theories of policy diffusion: learning, social reinterpretation, and social structural and resource constraints. Statistical models provide evidence only for the latter two. While theological changes gave expulsion fresh political value, the adoption of expulsion followed political and economic incentives that were embedded in inter-city relationships of power and dependency. The results indicate that social influence, especially spatial proximity, cannot be assumed to accelerate ethnoracial extremism
Diffusion · Physics · Political science · Sociology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Religion and Society Interactions
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A weakly informative default prior distribution for logistic and other regression models
Information Technology and Economic Change
Racecraft
Principles of Group Solidarity
Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
Toward Global Urban Climate Mitigation
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Geld und Politik. Spezialprivilegien für jüdische Großbankiers des 14. Jahrhunderts im Südostalpenraum
Communities of Violence
The Foundations of Ethnic Politics
Ethnicity without Groups
Rekeying Cultural Scripts for Youth Suicide
Printing and Protestants
Network diffusion of competing behaviors
Contentions over World Culture
Competitive Exclusion versus Mimetic Isomorphism
The long-term impact of the location of concentration camps on radical-right voting in Germany
The political economy of expulsion
Ethnic Identification and Stereotypes in Western Europe, circa 1100–1300
The Contagious Diffusion of Worldwide Terrorism
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Contexts of State Violence
The Conversion of Jews to Christianity in Thirteenth-Century England
A Tale of “Benevolent” Governments
Money, States, and Empire
Peasants and Jews in Medieval Germany
Adopting a New Religion
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks
The Diffusion of Regime Contention in European Democratization, 1830-1940
Beyond War and Contracts
Diffusion-Proofing
Domestic Institutions beyond the Nation-State
The Social Dynamics of Collective Action
Policy Diffusion and the Pro-innovation Bias
Defiant Innovation
The role of super interest groups in public policy diffusion
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Norm Subsidiarity and Regional Orders
Space Is More than Geography
Regulatory Convergence in the Financial Periphery
On Transgression
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The politics of policy diffusion
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Autocratic diffusion and cooperation
Creating the enemy, constructing the threat
Rethinking Democratic Diffusion
The Diffusion of Inclusion
Original Sin
Watch the Crowd
Timing Is Everything
Policy Diffusion
The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion
The Power of Peers
Exploring the Foundations of US State-Level Anti-Sharia Initiatives
Taking ideas and discourse seriously
The Iron Cage Revisited
The diffusion of racist violence in the Netherlands
The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion
World Polity Matters
Multiplex Network Ties and the Spatial Diffusion of Radical Innovations
Jews and the Ecumenical Councils
How Their Laws Affect our Laws
Do they know something we don't? Diffusion of repression in authoritarian regimes
Dangerous lessons
Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence
Legacies of the Third Reich
A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion
Social and Institutional Origins of Political Islam
Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development
Expulsions
Power, Hegemony, and World Society Theory
World-Economic Integration, Supply Depots, and Environmental Degradation
Adding Social Structure to Diffusion Models
The Predatory Theory of Rule
The Global Diffusion of Public Policies
Politics and Institutionalism
Institutional Isomorphism Revisited
Domains of Diffusion
Is Lying Contagious? Spatial Diffusion of High-Yield 'Satellites' during China's Great Leap Forward
Prestige, Proximity, and Prejudice
Group Threat and Policy Change
The Social Origins of Networks and Diffusion
The Social Structure of the World Polity
Influentials, Networks, and Public Opinion Formation
In Search of Excellence
The Diffusion of Collective Violence
World Society and the Nation-State
Contagious Collectivities
Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Diffusion
Social Contagion and Innovation
Structural Position in the World System and Economic Growth, 1955-1970
States, regimes, and decisions
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |