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Psychology and morality of political extremists: evidence from Twitter language analysis of alt-right and Antifa

open access: yesEPJ Data Science, 2019
The recent rise of the political extremism in Western countries has spurred renewed interest in the psychological and moral appeal of political extremism.
Meysam Alizadeh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
wiley   +1 more source

The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
wiley   +1 more source

Explaining Violent Extremism for Subgroups by Gender and Immigrant Background, Using SAT as a Framework

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2014
The principal object of this paper is to study the effects of extremist propensity, exposure to extremist moral settings and their interaction effect on political violence in sub groups by gender and immigrant background.
Nele Schils, Lieven Pauwels
doaj   +1 more source

Britishness and Muslim-ness: differentiation, demarcation and discrimination in political discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Britishness agenda found in political speeches, reporting and opinion editorials is here posited as a form of ‘new racism’, as it emphasises the difference between ‘them’, Muslims, and ‘us’, non-Muslim Britons, and uses that difference as a defining ...
Allen, Chris
core   +1 more source

The Prevent Counter‐Terrorism Strategy After Southport

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The counter‐terrorism Prevent Strategy has recently undergone a significant government review by David Anderson KC following the 2024 murders in Southport. The attacker was referred three times to Prevent without being engaged because he was deemed not to be susceptible to terrorist ideologies.
Paul Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Radicalization as a reaction to failure: an economic model of islamic extremism [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper views Islamist radicals as self-interested political revolutionaries and builds on a general model of political extremism developed in a previous paper (Ferrero, 2002), where extremism is modelled as a production factor whose effect on ...
Ferrero, Mario
core  

Revisiting the Far Right Violent Extremist Threat: Violent Extremist Plot Success From 1948 Through 2017 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Far Right violent extremists have successfully executed over 150 violent plots in the United States in just the past decade. This exploratory study analyzed Far Right violent extremist plot success with the plot success of Islamist violent extremists ...
Austin, Jesse
core   +1 more source

‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

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