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TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 415-433Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09546550802073367
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pyramid model; radicalization; terrorism
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This article conceptualizes political radicalization as a dimension of increasing extremity of beliefs, feelings, and behaviors in support of intergroup conflict and violence. Across individuals, groups, and mass publics, twelve mechanisms of radicalization are distinguished. For ten of these mechanisms, radicalization occurs in a context of group identification and reaction to perceived threat to the ingroup. The variety and strength of reactive mechanisms point to the need to understand radicalizationincluding the extremes of terrorismas emerging more from the dynamics of intergroup conflict than from the vicissitudes of individual psychology.
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