Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Why do people support Islamist Parties?

政治学博士论文研究：为什么人们支持伊斯兰政党？

• 批准号: 0213790
• 负责人: Ronald Inglehart
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2003-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0213790&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Science

This Doctoral Dissertation addresses the following question: What factors explain the popularity of political parties that promise an Islamic solution to social ills? Since the 1970s, the importance of Islam in social and political life visibly increased not only in authoritarian Middle Eastern states but also in the secular state of Turkey and in immigrant Muslim communities in the Western World. At a time when liberal-democracy has achieved victory over socialism, Islam stands as an alternative to liberal-democratic values. The project relies on three different data sets. First, it uses the information obtained from World Values Surveys conducted in eight predominantly Muslim countries. These countries are Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, and Turkey. These surveys contain valuable information about the value-systems, political behavior, and attitudes towards public issues of the respondents. The Principal Investigator will also conduct a comparative analysis of two districts of Istanbul to see how they differ in their popular bases for political Islam. Although, these regions have very similar socioeconomic and demographic conditions, Islamist parties managed to establish a popular base in only one of the districts. These natural settings provide an excellent opportunity to discern the factors that explain the popularity and the limits of political Islam. Finally, it uses data generated from open-ended interviews from Islamist politicians in Turkey. This third data set serves two goals. On the one hand, it helps the Principal Investigator to identify what political Islam offers to the people. On the other hand, it illuminates how the elites of the Islamist movements think about politics along with spotting their perceptions of liberal-democracy and West. In summary, this project aims to contribute to the scholarly knowledge in the following realms: the relationship between secularization and liberal-democracy; the prospects of democracy in the Muslim world; the implications of Islamic revival for liberalism; and the reasons for the rise of Islam as a major political force.

该博士学位论文解决了以下问题：哪些因素解释了有望解决社会疾病的政党的普及？自1970年代以来，伊斯兰教在社会和政治生活中的重要性不仅在中东专制国家，而且在土耳其的世俗状态以及西方世界的移民穆斯林社区中明显增加。在自由主义者取得了社会主义胜利的时候，伊斯兰教是自由民主价值观的替代品。该项目依靠三个不同的数据集。首先，它使用从八个主要穆斯林国家进行的世界价值调查获得的信息。这些国家是孟加拉国，埃及，印度尼西亚，伊朗，约旦，摩洛哥，巴基斯坦和土耳其。这些调查包含有关价值系统，政治行为和对受访者公共问题的态度的宝贵信息。 首席调查员还将对伊斯坦布尔两个地区进行比较分析，以了解他们在受欢迎的政治伊斯兰教基础上有何不同。尽管这些地区具有非常相似的社会经济和人口条件，但伊斯兰政党设法在其中一个地区建立了一个流行的基础。这些自然环境提供了一个很好的机会来辨别解释政治伊斯兰教的受欢迎程度和局限性的因素。最后，它使用了土耳其伊斯兰政客开放式访谈产生的数据。第三个数据集实现了两个目标。一方面，它有助于首席调查员确定伊斯兰教给人民提供的政治。另一方面，它阐明了伊斯兰运动的精英如何考虑政治，同时发现他们对自由民主和西方的看法。总而言之，该项目旨在为以下领域的学术知识做出贡献：世俗化与自由民主之间的关系；民主在穆斯林世界中的前景；伊斯兰复兴对自由主义的影响；以及伊斯兰教作为主要政治力量的原因。