Don’t get mad: the disconnect between religious discrimination and individual perceptions of government

This study examines whether objective discrimination against religious minorities causes individual members of a minority to form grievances and engage in political activity against the government using data from the World Values Survey and Religion and State-Minorities datasets. We find that higher...

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Auteurs: Fox, Jonathan 1968- (Auteur) ; Bader, Christopher D. 1969- (Auteur) ; McClure, Jennifer M. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Sage 2019
Dans: Conflict management and peace science
Année: 2019, Volume: 36, Numéro: 5, Pages: 495-516
Sujets non-standardisés:B Discrimination
B Groupe marginal
B Minorité
B Mobilisation politique
B Religion
B Politisation
B Groupe démographique
B Identité religieuse
B Analyse statistique
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Résumé:This study examines whether objective discrimination against religious minorities causes individual members of a minority to form grievances and engage in political activity against the government using data from the World Values Survey and Religion and State-Minorities datasets. We find that higher levels of objective discrimination do not predict more grievances and organizing activity. This contradicts predictions made by relative deprivation theory but is consistent with a social psychology literature which finds a “personal/group discrimination discrepancy.” That is, objective discrimination often has little influence on grievances expressed by individuals. Taking these findings, along with the failure of the empirical literature to support relative deprivation theory, the relative success of the grievances-based literature, the arguments of the mobilization literature, and a brief case study we argue that the key factor explaining collective action is the effort of group leaders to mobilize the grievances of group members.
Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 514-516
ISSN:1549-9219
Contient:Enthalten in: Conflict management and peace science
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0738894217723160