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Why Do Voters Vote for ‘the Other Side’? Instrumental and Expressive Motives for Cross‐Ethnolinguistic Voting in Brussels

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert, Silvia Erzeel, Didier Caluwaerts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Countering Violent Extremism Online: The Experiences of Informal Counter Messaging Actors [PDF]

Policy & Internet, 2019
The online space is a haven for extremists of all kinds. Although efforts to remove violent and extremist content are increasing, there is a widely accepted need to also contest extremist messages with counter messages designed to undermine and disrupt extremist narratives.
openaire   +4 more sources

Explicit Tolerance and Implicit Exclusion: A Study on National Identity in Sweden

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While people in many Western countries report increasingly tolerant and inclusive attitudes, minorities continue to face considerable, and in some cases growing, discrimination and exclusion. In this paper, I propose that the gap may stem from a discrepancy between explicit attitudes and more automatic, implicit attitudes. Most people may want
Filip Olsson
wiley   +1 more source

Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A South Asian Perspective

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conflicts in the contemporary international system have increasingly shifted from state‐centric power struggles to deeply rooted human needs crises. This study applies John Burton's Human Needs Theory to explain the persistence of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, focusing on the deprivation of identity, recognition, and ...
Hafeez Ullah Khan
wiley   +1 more source

The Internet as Ideological Battleground [PDF]

, 2010
Recent global events that have brought to light the use of new technologies by terrorist groups have focused attention on the role of the internet in the radicalisation of vulnerable individuals and groups towards a violent extremism.
Aly, Anne
core   +2 more sources

Integrating insights into radicalization: A text‐mining systematic review

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The study of radicalization encompasses a broad spectrum of perspectives, with scholars from diverse disciplines – ranging from psychology, sociology, political science, criminology, to economics – contributing to its multifaceted comprehension. Despite this substantial body of empirical research, the knowledge is fragmented across disciplines,
Anna Knorr, Nikita Podolin, Gabriele Di Cicco, Małgorzata Kossowska   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Not a real meritocracy? How conspiracy beliefs reduce perceived distributive justice

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The meritocracy principle, along with other distributive justice principles such as equality and need, is fundamental to the healthy functioning of modern societies. However, our understanding of the factors that shape citizens' perceptions of these principles remains limited.
Qi Zhao, Jan‐Willem van Prooijen, Giuliana Spadaro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Jihad: Radicalisation and Counter-Terrorism [PDF]

, 2011
‘Home-grown’ Islamist terrorism has developed in Australia in a comparable pattern to other Western countries. The Australian counter-terrorism strategy is similar to that in the UK, including the recent introduction of community-based preventive ...
Mullins, Sam
core  

The dangers, directness, and purposes of online collective actions

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Most research on online collective action investigates low‐effort, social media‐based actions rather than tactics with highly disruptive potential. To better account for the variety of forms of collective actions that use digital technologies, we conducted an open‐source intelligence search (Study 1a) and an expert consultation survey (Study ...
Catherine G. Lowery, Matthew Edwards, Laura G. E. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Countering Violent Extremism in Tunisia – Between Dependency and Self-Reliance

Journal for Deradicalization, 2018
In current counter-terrorism efforts, the potential of civil society organizations is recognized by international actors for countering radical narratives and implementing prevention activities in non-Western countries.
Lydia Letsch
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