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4 - Muslim American Prospects for Political Incorporation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2020

Nazita Lajevardi
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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Chapter 4 evaluates whether Muslim American resentment matters for the election of Muslim American officials, and the enhancing of Muslim American descriptive representation. The chapter presents results from two candidate evaluation survey experiments in which the party, race, and religion of fictional candidates were varied in a hypothetical primary election for congressional office. The results demonstrate that it is religion – and not race – that leads to discrimination against Muslim candidates. In other words, there is significantly less probability of Muslims, regardless of race, being viewed as likely to win. 

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Outsiders at Home
The Politics of American Islamophobia
, pp. 63 - 85
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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