Focusing on nine European countries and the United States, this project — The One Percent Problem: Muslims in the West and the Rise of the New Populists — will examine how the growth of Muslim minority communities and fears around Islam’s public role are shaping the formation of new “populist” identities and ideologies in Western democracies. This unique focus offers an important entry point to address increasingly salient questions around what it means to be a nation—and who constitutes its members—at a time when elections are increasingly fought around so-called “who we are” questions.

Focusing on nine case countries — Germany [anchor link to Germany section], Austria, Italy, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, and Hungary — the project features a dialogue…:

• Main paper (or whatever phrasing you’d prefer)
• Reaction paper
• JUST ADDED: Responses from populist leaders from the region and the authors