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Mecham, Robert Quinn.

From the sacred to the state: Institutional origins of Islamist political mobilization.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From the sacred to the state: Institutional origins of Islamist political mobilization.
Author:	Mecham, Robert Quinn.
Description:	368 p.
Notes:	Adviser: David Laitin.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3571.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Religion, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3235287
ISBN:	9780542884221

From the sacred to the state: Institutional origins of Islamist political mobilization.
Mecham, Robert Quinn.

From the sacred to the state: Institutional origins of Islamist political mobilization. - 368 p.

Adviser: David Laitin.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2006.

Muslim countries have experienced wide variation in levels of Islamist political mobilization in the contemporary period, both across geography and across time. Islamist political mobilization is manifest in multiple forms, including electoral mobilization in support of Islamist political parties, street demonstrations, and political violence. Both temporal and spatial variation in mobilization outcomes are explained as a process of the expression of preferences within a framework of individual cost-benefit decisions. This process is dependent on the convergence of three institutional contexts for it to be successful: (1) poor incorporation of religious entrepreneurs into state incentive networks and low in-group policing ability of the religious elite; (2) broad social penetration of Islamic institutions such as religious schools and mosques that create common knowledge of Islamic expectations; and (3) public focal points at the state level such as crises of order and justice, or rapid political liberalization, that channel common knowledge into entrepreneurial attempts to mobilize at a given time.

ISBN: 9780542884221Subjects--Topical Terms:

212708
Religion, General.

From the sacred to the state: Institutional origins of Islamist political mobilization.
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520 # $a The impact of these institutional contexts is examined through a two-part research design. The first part examines Islamist mobilization through an original data set of mobilization outcomes from 1970-2000 in 55 polities using panel regression statistical models and historical comparative analysis. The second part examines three prominent cases with diverse levels of Islamist mobilization: Senegal (low levels), Turkey (moderate levels), and Algeria (high levels). Both ethnographic and historical assessments of these cases demonstrate the central role of religious institutions, poor state incorporation of religious elites, and public state crises/liberalization in explaining why Islam becomes successfully mobilized in the political arena.
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