Article written by 2010 DPDF After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity Fellow David T. Buckley, featured in Western European Politics, Volume 36, No. 1:

Do institutions of citizenship shape public opinion among Muslims in the West? Pitched debates about the future of multiculturalism give strong theoretical reason to think that institutions would cause cross-national variation in minority opinion. Institutions set rules for national integration and communal recognition and send signals regarding social views of diversity. Testing these theorised links, however, requires two steps. First, careful conceptualisation of citizenship, both in individual and communal dimensions, categorises states’ citizenship regimes. Second, unique cross-national polling of Muslim minorities in France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States permits analysis of the relationship between institutions and minority political attitudes. Findings demonstrate strong institutional effects on attitudes. However, these effects vary depending on the question asked. Institutions impact on cross-national variation in opinion regarding national identification and women’s place in society. There is no evidence of institutional roots of support for suicide terrorism.

Publication Details

Title
Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Cross-National Muslim Minority Public Opinion
Authors
Buckley, David T.
Publisher
Routledge
Publish Date
January 2013
Citation
Buckley, David T., Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Cross-National Muslim Minority Public Opinion (Routledge, January 2013).
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