Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis. By Paul M. Sniderman, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus, and Rune Stubager. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii+186. $35.00 (cloth).

2015 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 965-967
Author(s):  
Kelley Strawn
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Cartoon Crisis

A discussion of Paul M. Sniderman, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus, and Rune Stubager's Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 466-467
Author(s):  
Rebekah Tromble
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Randomized Experiments ◽  
The World ◽  
Cartoon Crisis

The 2005 Danish cartoon crisis has been the topic of much discussion among political science scholars. In September 2011 we ran a symposium on Jytte Klausen’s The Cartoons That Shook the World that centered on the tensions between multiculturalism, civility, and freedom of expression disclosed by the controversy. Paul M. Sniderman, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Slothuus, and Rune Stubager’s Paradoxes of Liberal Democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish Cartoon Crisis (Princeton 2014) revisits the Danish crisis. Drawing on randomized experiments linked to broader survey research, the authors offer a nuanced account of Danish public opinion, and argue that the sensitivity of Danes to civil liberties concerns explains why the cartoon controversy did not result in an anti-Muslim backlash. The topic, the argument, and the methodology are important, and so we have invited a range of political science scholars to review the book. — Jeffrey C. Isaac

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