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Project

Dual radicalization? The impact of resentment, misunderstandings and liberal values on radical belief systems among majority and minority group members

This project aims to understand the emergence of radical belief systems among native majority (radical right) and Muslim minority group members (radical Islamism). We develop a model of dual radicalization: radical belief systems of majority and Muslim minority group members function as mirror-images that may mutually reinforce each other, warranting a joint investigation and relational perspective. We do this by investigating the interplay between majority and minority radical belief systems and the (support for) radical behavior as a result of group position in terms of (1) feelings of resentment, (2) group-based threat, (3) intra- and intergroup misunderstandings (i.e., perceived social norms and meta-perceptions), and (4) the applicability and conditionality of liberal values (such as gender equality, freedom of speech or freedom of religion). Importantly, we test this conceptual model in both majority and minority populations (i.e. Turkish and Moroccan Belgians). For this project we will gather survey data of a probability sample of 1.050 Turkish and Moroccan Belgians. This new data will be coupled to the already funded Belgian National Election Study 2019 to make comparisons across minority and majority citizens possible.
Date:1 Oct 2019 →  Today
Keywords:Metaperceptions, Resentment, Radical right, Radical belief systems, Majority and minority attitudes, Radical Islam, Intergroup misunderstandings
Disciplines:Political sociology