Political parties and Muslims in Europe: the regulation of Islam in public education

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• dc.contributor.author Ciornei, Irina
• dc.contributor.author Euchner, Eva-Maria
• dc.contributor.author Yesil, Ilay
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-01T09:57:58Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description Includes supplementary material for the online appendix
• dc.description.abstract Despite growing anti-immigrant discourse and radical-right party electoral support, most Western European states include Islam in religious education classes in public schools. What are the conditions that explain these policy changes? Who are the main political allies of Muslims’ demands for inclusion in religious education? Based on an original dataset that gathered data on religious education policies in 13 European countries between 1970 and 2010, this article inquires how party ideology and secularisation explain the timing and equal inclusion of Islam. The article shows that, while Left-dominated governments are the main drivers for introducing Islam within curricula, Christian-Democratic parties in power promote equal terms of inclusion, especially in contexts with a secular approach to religious education. These findings enrich our understanding of political parties in secular times by illustrating how the aim of upholding religious influence in education systems motivates Christian Democrats to promote equal rights for Muslims.
• dc.description.sponsorship Ajut: This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) under Grant 100017L_169273; and German Science Foundation (DFG) under Grant Number 633996.
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
• dc.identifier.citation Ciornei I, Euchner EM, Yesil I. Political parties and Muslims in Europe: the regulation of Islam in public education. West European Politics. 2022;45(5):1003-32. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2021.1927546
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2021.1927546
• dc.identifier.issn 0140-2382
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/49119
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
• dc.relation.ispartof West European Politics. 2022;45(5):1003-32
• dc.relation.isreferencedby https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14779046.v1
• dc.rights © This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in West European Politics on 2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01402382.2021.1927546.
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.subject.keyword Political parties
• dc.subject.keyword Christian-Democratic parties
• dc.subject.keyword Immigration
• dc.subject.keyword Islam
• dc.subject.keyword Religious education
• dc.title Political parties and Muslims in Europe: the regulation of Islam in public education
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion