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6. August 2024
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New Publication
A new article by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kurtenbach, Armin Küchler, and Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick witht the title "Prevention of Neighborhood Effects on the Susceptibility to Radicalization: Results of a Comparative Study in Germany" was published recently.
In their study they "...examine whether disadvantaged neighborhood effects – operationalized in our case as susceptibility to radicalization – can be mitigated or even prevented by LSSOs. We focus our analysis on susceptibility to Islamist ideologies".
To learn more about the empirical study.
Abstract of the article:
"This study examines whether the neighborhood effect on vulnerability to radicalization can be mitigated by the density and diversity of social service organizations. In this study, vulnerability to radicalization is composed of perceived discrimination, distrust of democracy, and authoritarianism. To this end, data from surveys conducted in the three German cities of Dortmund (n = 1,900), Bonn (n = 1,986), and Berlin (n = 2,060) is combined with data on social structure and the size, density, and heterogeneity of local social service organizations at the neighborhood level in hierarchical models. Although the findings show no clear preventive effects of organizational ecology on vulnerability to radicalization, they suggest that local social service organizations are more likely to be effective depending on the extent of local challenges".
Here to the open access article.
To learn more about the empirical study.
Abstract of the article:
"This study examines whether the neighborhood effect on vulnerability to radicalization can be mitigated by the density and diversity of social service organizations. In this study, vulnerability to radicalization is composed of perceived discrimination, distrust of democracy, and authoritarianism. To this end, data from surveys conducted in the three German cities of Dortmund (n = 1,900), Bonn (n = 1,986), and Berlin (n = 2,060) is combined with data on social structure and the size, density, and heterogeneity of local social service organizations at the neighborhood level in hierarchical models. Although the findings show no clear preventive effects of organizational ecology on vulnerability to radicalization, they suggest that local social service organizations are more likely to be effective depending on the extent of local challenges".
Here to the open access article.