Islam, religiosity, and immigrant political action in Western Europe.

Imam Khomeini’s Intellectual Foundations and Indicators of Political Action in the Arena of Domestic Policy

Foundation and management of the newlyestablished Islamic Republic of Iran system based on Imam Khomeini’sintellectual bases, including God-centeredness, obligation- centerednessattitudes, and as...

تمایزهای گفتمانی راست افراطی در جغرافیای غرب با تاکید بر جایگاه مسلمانان

Why and how intensification of the activities of extreme right-wing groups in the West has become a major issue in security studies in recent years. Despite the differences in the activities of these groups in the two geographies of Western Europe and North America as the main focal points of Western civilization, the available evidence suggests that the greatest opposition to Islam and Muslims...

Making the List: The Growth (And Varying Success) of Immigrant-Origin Political Candidates in Western Europe

Marc Helbling

This paper reveals that while Muslims have a surprisingly good reputation in Western Europe, the headscarf is opposed by a large majority. Several arguments are developed in this paper to investigate why people make a difference between Muslims as a group and their religious practices. While attitudes towards Muslims hardly vary across countries there is a lot of variation of resentment against...

Citizenship rights for immigrants: national political processes and cross-national convergence in western Europe, 1980-2008.

Immigrant citizenship rights in the nation-state reference both theories of cross-national convergence and the resilience of national political processes. This article investigates European countries' attribution of rights to immigrants: Have these rights become more inclusive and more similar across countries? Are they affected by EU membership, the role of the judiciary, the party in power, t...