A5010513672- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Social Media and Politics
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Media Influence and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- European and International Law Studies
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Australian History and Society
- Race, History, and American Society
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Gender Politics and Representation
Middlebury College
2015-2025
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2022-2024
University of Illinois Chicago
2021-2023
University of California, San Diego
2023
Quinnipiac University
2023
Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
2022
Pennsylvania State University
2021
University of Minnesota System
2021
Vanderbilt University
2021
University of North Texas
2021
Islamophobia is an emerging comparative concept in the social sciences. Yet there no widely accepted definition of that permits systematic and causal analysis. This article explores how term has been deployed public scholarly debates, emphasizing these discussions have taken place on multiple registers. It then draws research formation, prejudice, analogous forms status hierarchies to offer a usable scientific as indiscriminate negative attitudes or emotions directed at Islam Muslims. The...
Assessing whether texts are positive or negative—sentiment analysis—has wide-ranging applications across many disciplines. Automated approaches make it possible to code near unlimited quantities of rapidly, replicably, and with high accuracy. Compared machine learning large language model (LLM) approaches, lexicon-based methods may sacrifice some in performance, but exchange they provide generalizability domain independence, while crucially offering the possibility identifying gradations...
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To better understand the public portrayal of minorities, we propose a new and systematic procedure for measuring standing different groups that relies on tone daily newspaper headlines containing names minority groups. This paper assesses Muslims in British print media between 2001 2012, focusing especially testing scholarly propositions are depicted systematically negative way. We compare across time type to Jews Christians. do not find support arguments consistently portrayed manner as...
As early as the 1990s, Tariq Modood began drawing our attention to frictions and possibilities surrounding ethnoreligious identities in western societies. If Britain was embedded a race rela...
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars be more open and explicit about the bases their empirical claims and, turn, make those readily evaluable by others. While qualitative long taken an interest making research open, reflexive, systematic, push for overarching transparency norms requirements has provoked serious concern within communities raised fundamental questions meaning, value, costs, intellectual relevance...
Abstract Since the 1960s, many liberal democracies have instituted laws that penalise hate speech and crimes in ways limit freedom for racists to express themselves. This article examines legislation enforcement of provisions against incitement racial hatred, Holocaust denial, motivated by bias Western Europe United States. Viewed over time, pace change has more closely resembled a slow creep than slippery slope, extent differed across countries different domains. documents trend highlights...
ABSTRACT Bleich assesses levels of anti-Muslim prejudice in two important European countries—Britain and France—to begin a process systematically evaluating the status Muslims on national ethno-racial hierarchies. He reviews major scholarly institutional public opinion polls from 1988 through 2008 to discern attitudes towards over time comparison other religious ethnic groups. The findings support following conclusions: negative have risen past twenty years Britain France; when compared...
Introduction 1. Balancing Public Values-The Big Picture Part One: Freedom of Expression 2. European Restrictionism and its Variations 3. Holocaust Denial Extremes 4. American Exceptionalism Limits Two: Association Opinion-as-Motive 5. Banning Racist Groups Parties 6. Punishing Racial Discrimination Hate Crimes Conclusions 7. How Much for Racists? References
In this article, we analyze the extent to which Muslims self-identify as French. A common interpretation of Muslim political attitudes assumes that Islam fundamentally conflicts with mainstream European society and when are more attached their religion they will be less likely identify We examine assumption by exploring whether national identification is strongly related religiosity or other factors such socio-economic status, social networks, immigrant integration. Our results offer some...
This article argues that systematically integrating ideas into policy-making analysis greatly enhances our understanding of policy outcomes. Variables emphasized by other schools thought—such as power, interests, institutions, and problems—often provide an inadequate explanation choices. To demonstrate the contribution to analysis, this examines impact frames, showing how they help actors define their generate interpretations pressing problems, constrain actions. Retracing history race...
An important public debate in contemporary Europe is whether immigrant-origin Muslims will successfully integrate into mainstream society. We engage those debates by analysing national identification among Muslim adolescents England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden. A common argument that Islamic religion prevents from integrating because its practices are incompatible with European culture. However, we find religiosity not most predictor of identification. Instead, citizenship, contact...
Political scientists are increasingly interested in the interaction between ideas and policies. Some research has used as independent variables to demonstrate how a change determined policy outcome.1 Other studies have looked at different national institutions funnel, shape, adopt similar international ideas.2 This study follows second tradition by focusing on application of idea multiculturalism education England France. Multiculturalism first appeared agenda 1960s, it remains hotly debated...
The USA and European countries have developed radically different approaches to regulating racist hate speech over the past 50 years. This divergence is largely a function of rulings by US Supreme Court Human Rights. While has elected uphold freedom express inflammatory racism in public, almost always sided with its 47 member states when they enforced laws curbing speech. Although number scholars described differences between Europe, there currently no theoretically informed explanation this...
Are Muslims portrayed more negatively than other religious groups? If so, what factors are associated with this negativity? We apply computer-assisted, lexicon-based coding to over 850,000 articles that mention Muslims, Hindus, Jews, or Catholics in 17 national and regional US newspapers the 20-year period of 1996–2015 compare them a representative baseline articles. show average tone about is considerably negative both compared groups. The most strongly stories extremism events foreign...
This essay examines contemporary state responses to associations between Muslims and violence in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands Spain. It stresses critical role of as a spur recent policy developments, but argues that actions since 9/11 have be seen context rising 1980s. States responded these with an overlapping three-pronged strategy consists enacting generic anti-violence policies, repressing religious integrating minorities.
Recent events have layered a security dimension on top of pre-existing concerns about Muslim integration in liberal democracies. The contributions to this collection address four central themes related the emerging interactions between Muslims and states contemporary Europe North America: timing securitisation trend these countries; types state policy being produced; effectiveness different policies managing social challenges perceived by actors; identification relevant actors their views...
The study of ethnic riots has a substantial pedigree in the social sciences, but so far there been no systematic attempt to unify insights from scholars working on different areas world, nor any extensive application existing knowledge Western Europe. We address these two lacunae by drawing contemporary scholarship generate testable hypotheses about state responses liberal democracies, and conducting preliminary test four controlled comparison cases Britain France. Our reveal that states...
This article assesses the effect of social research on origins and evolution race frames policy-making in Britain France. Social can provide new ideas information within an existing system, so doing, it may spur a shift policy frames. seldom be most important influence or outcomes, but its timing, fit with interests powerful actors ways which becomes institutionalised national political scene increase odds affecting trajectories enhance potential for resolving dilemmas that often accompany...
Scholars have identified Muslims’ religiosity and faith practices, often believed to be more intense than those of other religious groups, as a point friction in liberal democracies. We use computer-assisted methods lexical sentiment analysis collocation assess 800,000 articles between 1996 2016 range British, American, Canadian, Australian newspapers. couple this approach with human coding 100 randomly selected investigate the tone devotion-related themes when linked Islam Muslims. show...