Struggle for Inclusion

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten is professor of political science and scientific director of the Digital Social Science Core Facility at the University of Bergen, Norway. Paul M. Sniderman is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is, most recently, author of The Democratic Faith and coauthor of Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe and the Danish Cartoon Crisis.

“The Struggle for Inclusion charts an evidence-based strategy for winning over a potentially inclusive non-Muslim majority in Western European countries. Rather than intervene in an attempt to change attitudes about Muslims, the authors search for hidden tolerant majorities by exploring the conditions under which survey respondents from seven countries express tolerant views. A meticulously crafted series of survey experiments shows how acceptance of Muslims changes, sometimes dramatically, depending on the substantive concerns at issue.”

• List of FiguresPreface1 IntroductionA Note on Methodology and Data2 Demonization and Differentiation3 Respect4 Speech as a Mirror of Dignity5 The Construction of National Identities6 Taking Part: Images of Citizenship7 Liberal Values and Muslim CommunitiesAppendix: A Methodological Note on the Validity of the IMCP Measure8 A New Framework for the Study of Inclusive Politics9 InvitationsAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Documentation of Survey Experiments by FigureNotesBibliographyData SourcesIndex