Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A Climate of Muslim American Hostility
- 2 Theoretical Framework: The Sociopolitical Positioning of Muslim Americans
- 3 Introducing the “Muslim American Resentment” Scale
- 4 Muslim American Prospects for Political Incorporation
- 5 The News Media’s Portrayals of Muslim Americans
- 6 Improving Mass Attitudes: The Media’s Role in Shaping Group Attitudes and Policy Preferences
- 7 Muslim American Representation: Outsiders in Their Own Country?
- 8 The Flipside: Muslim American Experiences of Discrimination
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Muslim American Prospects for Political Incorporation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 May 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A Climate of Muslim American Hostility
- 2 Theoretical Framework: The Sociopolitical Positioning of Muslim Americans
- 3 Introducing the “Muslim American Resentment” Scale
- 4 Muslim American Prospects for Political Incorporation
- 5 The News Media’s Portrayals of Muslim Americans
- 6 Improving Mass Attitudes: The Media’s Role in Shaping Group Attitudes and Policy Preferences
- 7 Muslim American Representation: Outsiders in Their Own Country?
- 8 The Flipside: Muslim American Experiences of Discrimination
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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 HomeThe Politics of American Islamophobia, pp. 63 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020