Cristin-resultat-ID: 1050231
Sist endret: 25. september 2014, 19:15
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2014
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2014

Questioning the secular-religious cleavage in palestinian politics: Comparing Fatah and Hamas

Bidragsytere:
  • Frode Løvlie

Tidsskrift

Politics and Religion
ISSN 1755-0483
e-ISSN 1755-0491
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2014
Publisert online: 2013
Trykket: 2014
Volum: 7
Hefte: 1
Sider: 100 - 121

Importkilder

Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-84896976162

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Sammenlignende politikk

Beskrivelse Beskrivelse

Tittel

Questioning the secular-religious cleavage in palestinian politics: Comparing Fatah and Hamas

Sammendrag

Following the 2007 war between Fatah and Hamas, Palestinian politics appears to have followed the regional trend where the competition between secularism and Islamism is developing into a major political cleavage. Through comparisons of the two movements' ideologies, however, the article questions the relevance of this religious-secular cleavage to explaining Palestinian factional politics. Fatah — the traditional hegemon in Palestinian politics and previously staunchly secularist — has turned increasingly religious in response to the spread of Islamism. Hamas for its part has shed its overly religious rhetoric, absolutist territorial claims, and insistence on a violent solution to the Palestinian problem, in tandem with the deradicalization of the Palestinian population. In finding that both movements have moved toward the center of the political spectrum to maximize support, the article concludes that their rivalry is best understood as a competition for the median voter rather than as an indication of political polarization.

Bidragsytere

Frode Andreas Løvlie

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Frode Løvlie
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for sammenliknende politikk ved Universitetet i Bergen
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Chr. Michelsen Institute
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