Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul Sniderman on the Inclusion and Respect of Muslim Minorities

If you're actually a real person and you're living your life and you're going into stores and you're riding on a bus or your kids are going to school, what matters is that you be treated with respect. That you have a dignity. And that, I think, at every point that matters most to us is what the book has wound up being about. It’s an essay on respect as a condition of a liberal democracy.Paul SnidermanA full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos  here.Elisabeth Ivarsflaten is a professor of political science and scientific director of the Digital Social Science Core Facility at the University of Bergen, Norway. Paul Sniderman is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University. They are the authors of The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos.Key HighlightsWestern societies show greater openness towards Muslim immigrants than previously recognizedWhere are there opportunities for real inclusion for Muslim immigrantsHow innovative research designs led to unexpected resultsThe difference between recognition respect and appraisal respectThe limits to inclusion for liberal societies that remain todaySupport Democracy Paradox on Patreon for bonus episodes and exclusive updates and information. Key LinksThe Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos by Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul SnidermanLearn more about the Digital Social Science Core Facility including The Norwegian Citizen PanelLearn more about Paul SnidermanDemocracy Paradox PodcastSara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic ThreatsMike Hoffman on How Religious Identities Influence Support for or Opposition to DemocracyMore Episodes from the PodcastMore InformationDemocracy GroupApes of the State created all MusicEmail the show at [email protected] on Twitter @DemParadox100 Books on DemocracySupport the show