Trust and the Islamic advantage : religious-based movements in Turkey and the Muslim world

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    • Livny, Avital

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Trust and the Islamic advantage : religious-based movements in Turkey and the Muslim world

Avital Livny

Cambridge University Press, 2022

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"First published 2020. First paperback edition 2022"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-250) and index

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In much of the Muslim world, Islamic political and economic movements appear to have a comparative advantage. Relative to similar secular groups, they are better able to mobilize supporters and sustain their cooperation long-term. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Turkey, a historically secular country that has experienced a sharp rise in Islamic-based political and economic activity. Drawing on rich data sources and econometric methods, Avital Livny challenges existing explanations - such as personal faith - for the success of these movements. Instead, Livny shows that the Islamic advantage is rooted in feelings of trust among individuals with a shared, religious group-identity. This group-based trust serves as an effective substitute for more generalized feelings of interpersonal trust, which are largely absent in many Muslim-plurality countries. The book presents a new argument for conceptualizing religion as both a personal belief system and collective identity.

Table of Contents

  • Part I. Theoretical Development: 1. Understanding the rise of Islamic-based movements in the Muslim world
  • 2. Evaluating existing theories of the Islamic advantage
  • 3. Generalized distrust and the participation gap in the Muslim world
  • 4. Muslim identity and group-based trust
  • Part II. Applications and Empirics: 5. Explaining the Islamic advantage in political participation
  • 6. Islam, trust, and strategic voting in Turkey
  • 7. The quasi-integration of firms in an Islamic community: the case of MUESIAD
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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