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Modeling Radicalization and Violent Extremism
2020
Given public anxiety about radicalization and violent extremism, it is not surprising that these topics have grabbed the attention of so many scholars in recent years. However, some have expressed concern over the fact that only a few studies in this relatively new field contain empirical data or systematic data analysis or develop causal models of the mechanisms generating these phenomena. We believe that computational modeling and simulation techniques can make a significant contribution to this scientific literature and eventually provide new tools for improving policy analysis. Here we briefly describe (1) an integrative theory of violent extremism proposed by Kruglanski and colleagues …
Ideologicamente disponibles
1985
Terminological Games: The Finnish Security Police Monitoring the Far-Right Movements in Finland During the Cold War
2020
This article focuses on the use of terms and concepts related to the nationalist movements by the Finnish security police during the Cold War. The key objective of the security police was to protect the legal order of the state and monitor the groups and phenomena potentially harmful to that cause. The previous experience regarding the rise of the radical nationalism and fascism in Finland in the 1930s and the 1947 Paris peace treaties were the historical and legal contexts within which the interpretations were made. As the article shows, interpretation made by the security police, however, relied occasionally on a limited understanding about the evolving far-right scene, thus producing ter…
Spanish Adaptation of the Left-Wing Authoritarianism Index
2021
Notwithstanding long-simmering controversies around the construct, several studies have gathered consistent evidence of authoritarian attitudes among left-wing voters and activists. Recently, Costello et al. (Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2021) validated, in the English-speaking context, a three-factor scale to measure left-wing authoritarianism, as well as two shortened versions of the same scale (Costello & Patrick, Development and initial validation of two brief measures of left-wing authoritarianism: A machine learning approach, 2021; composed of 39, 25 and 13 items, respectively). In this article, we use…
Estado islámico: la cultura corporativa del terrorismo. Nuevas narrativas y medios a la conquista de Internet
2023
Tras la toma de la ciudad iraquí de Mosul en junio de 2014, el grupo terrorista Estado Islámico se convirtió en un enemigo público mundial, pero también en fuente de admiración para el mundo yihadista y de fascinación para el ámbito académico por sus novedosas y burbujeantes formas de comunicación. A través de una retórica victimista secular —nada nuevo: el patrocinio de yihad contra los enemigos del Islam y la comunidad islámica— y un uso de la tecnología sin parangón, el Estado Islámico superó las fronteras físicas para instalarse en el debate geopolítico global con un discurso que juega con los sentimientos de los seguidores de la religión de Alá y Mahoma. El presente trabajo examina, ad…
Extrémisme et monomanie
2002
The paper defines an extremist as an individual whose ideal point in the issue space is extreme in some dimension, and a "monomaniac" (no derogatory connotation) as an individual for whom one issue is given more weight, has greater "salience", than the others. This difference in salience is reflected in the spatial theory of voting by indifference curves taking the form of ellipses. Using this theoretical framework, it is showed that monomaniacs, even though they are not necessarily also extremists, can easily be induced by extremist politicians to form or support extremist coalitions. This phenomenon can account for a number of the observed characteristics of extremist movements. It also h…
Prawicowy ekstremizm jako zagrożenie dla demokratycznych standardów w Niemczech
2020
Right-wing extremism in Germany is hardly a new phenomenon, but it has been changing in recent years. Right-wing extremists are becoming morę aggressive and the number of violent crimes they commit is increasing. Right-wing extremists are predominantly against immigration to Germany and Islamization. They are demanding substantial changes in the asylum law and glorifying German national values. Formal and informal groups of right-wing extremists take advantage of the fears of Islamie terror- ism, and they support hostility towards immigrants - primarily Muslims. The stronghold of the right-wing extremism is in the Eastern States of the German Federal Republic. In the paper, the Author is ru…
Il contrasto all’odio e alla disinformazione in rete. Prime evidenze dalle campagne del progetto COMMIT
2023
Negli ultimi anni l’Europa ha dovuto affrontare le conseguenze di una crescente propaganda estremista, radicale e terroristica, che sempre più spesso trova spazio nei social media. Il contributo descrive il progetto COMMIT (COMMunIcation campaign against exTremism and radicalisation) che ha sviluppato, tra il 2020 e il 2022, una serie di attività di ricerca e di intervento con l’obiettivo, da un lato, di mappare il fenomeno della radicalizzazione online nei quattro Paesi partner (Italia, Grecia, Austria e Paesi Bassi) e individuare le caratteristiche dei gruppi più vulnerabili, dall’altro, di sviluppare le competenze di media literacy e di advocacy dei giovani destinatari del progetto.
Attitudes : Tendencies and Variations
2018
This chapter presents an overview of religiosity and attitudes to religious diversity in media and other public spaces based on a cross-Scandinavian survey conducted in 2015. Although Scandinavians in general have a weak personal connection to religion, Christianity still holds a privileged position as an expression of cultural identity. Scandinavians express support for equal rights to practice religion, but also doubtfulness towards public expressions of religion. More than one-fourth of respondents discuss news about religion and religious extremism regularly. There is a widespread sentiment that Islam is a threat to the national culture, even though most respondents state that they oppo…