What Drives Counter-Extremism? The Extent of P/CVE Policies in the West and Their Structural Correlates.

ABSTRACT: Counter-extremism (P/CVE) policies have shot to global prominence rapidly, yet there are large discrepancies in their implementation both between, and inside, countries. In this paper, we construct and present a robust index of P/CVE policies in Western countries (N = 38), based on data submitted by national experts, which we then use to test three hypothesized structural correlates of the extent of P/CVE implementation: threat of terrorism (measured as the number of past attacks/victims), size of Muslim minorities (Muslim communities have been "securitised" as potential threats in the post 9/11 period), and neoliberal governance (drawing on criminological literature that connects neoliberalism to anticipatory crime control). We find the first two structural factors to be positively and si

SUBMITTER: Shanaah S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10629459 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature