The violent actions of a few extremists can alter the course of history, yet there persists a yawning gap between the potential impact of these individuals and what we understand about them. In Engineers of Jihad, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog uncover two unexpected facts, which they imaginatively leverage to narrow that gap: they find that a disproportionate share of Islamist radicals come from an engineering background, and that Islamist and right-wing extremism have more in common than either does with left-wing extremism, in which engineers are absent while social scientists and humanities students are prominent. Searching for an explanation, they tackle four general questions about extremism: Under which socioeconomic conditions do people join extremist groups? Does the profile of extremists reflect how they self-select into extremism or how groups recruit them? Does ideology matter in sorting who joins which group? Lastly, is there a mindset susceptible to certain types of extremism? Using rigorous methods and several new datasets, they explain the link between educational discipline and type of radicalism by looking at two key factors: the social mobility (or lack thereof) for engineers in the Muslim world, and a particular mindset seeking order and hierarchy that is found more frequently among engineers. Engineers’ presence in some extremist groups and not others, the authors argue, is a proxy for individual traits that may account for the much larger question of selective recruitment to radical activism. Opening up markedly new perspectives on the motivations of political violence, Engineers of Jihad yields unexpected answers about the nature and emergence of extremism.
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評分什麼造成瞭當今世界的恐怖主義?穆黑肯定會說是伊斯蘭教,因為80%的恐(英)怖(雄)事跡是穆斯林發動的,雖然並非80%的穆斯林都是kb分子。同理,80%的艾滋病都是同性戀引起的,雖然並非80%的同性戀都有艾滋病。繼續按這個道理順下去,著名犯罪學傢、經濟學傢Diego Gambetta告訴我...
評分什麼造成瞭當今世界的恐怖主義?穆黑肯定會說是伊斯蘭教,因為80%的恐(英)怖(雄)事跡是穆斯林發動的,雖然並非80%的穆斯林都是kb分子。同理,80%的艾滋病都是同性戀引起的,雖然並非80%的同性戀都有艾滋病。繼續按這個道理順下去,著名犯罪學傢、經濟學傢Diego Gambetta告訴我...
評分什麼造成瞭當今世界的恐怖主義?穆黑肯定會說是伊斯蘭教,因為80%的恐(英)怖(雄)事跡是穆斯林發動的,雖然並非80%的穆斯林都是kb分子。同理,80%的艾滋病都是同性戀引起的,雖然並非80%的同性戀都有艾滋病。繼續按這個道理順下去,著名犯罪學傢、經濟學傢Diego Gambetta告訴我...
評分什麼造成瞭當今世界的恐怖主義?穆黑肯定會說是伊斯蘭教,因為80%的恐(英)怖(雄)事跡是穆斯林發動的,雖然並非80%的穆斯林都是kb分子。同理,80%的艾滋病都是同性戀引起的,雖然並非80%的同性戀都有艾滋病。繼續按這個道理順下去,著名犯罪學傢、經濟學傢Diego Gambetta告訴我...
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就工程師在伊斯蘭極端組織中占大比例的現象,反駁瞭兩個原因(random selection followed by diffusion 和technical skills),提齣兩個猜想:1)工科生理性、單一的思維方式,對集權統治、理性治國的訴求。2)過高的期望與現實的落差
評分好奇地翻瞭圖錶和結論。【從學科看,Jihad的反義詞是left wing……?】
評分就工程師在伊斯蘭極端組織中占大比例的現象,反駁瞭兩個原因(random selection followed by diffusion 和technical skills),提齣兩個猜想:1)工科生理性、單一的思維方式,對集權統治、理性治國的訴求。2)過高的期望與現實的落差
評分就工程師在伊斯蘭極端組織中占大比例的現象,反駁瞭兩個原因(random selection followed by diffusion 和technical skills),提齣兩個猜想:1)工科生理性、單一的思維方式,對集權統治、理性治國的訴求。2)過高的期望與現實的落差
評分配著Krueger那本讀,風味更佳。開腦洞部分比Krueger厲害。So the gist is that with reduced labor market opportunities, the opportunity cost of becoming a terrorist is lowered equalizes to the (expected in terms of beliefs/ideologies etc) gain, so hence engineers tend to become terrorists..
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