Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-254) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Additional Robustness Checks. Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation of the Literature -- The Argument: Ideas, Timing, and Organization -- The Research Design -- The Plan of the Book -- Appendix 3 Theory -- The Historical Baseline -- Types of Reformism: Religious and Secular -- Timeline of Secular Reformism: The Puzzle of Resilience and Spread -- Causes of Resilience and Spread: Printing and Levels of Repression -- Secular Ideas, Initial Organization, and Spread of Secular Reformism: The Linkage -- Institutional Secularization: Comparative Disadvantage and Timing -- Conclusion -- 2. Cross-National Analysis -- The Dependent Variables -- The Explanatory Variables -- The Analysis -- Conclusion -- 3. Comparative Historical Analysis I: France and Spain -- France -- Spain -- Conclusion -- 4. Comparative Historical Analysis II: Turkey and Morocco -- Turkey -- Morocco -- Conclusion -- 5. Analyzing the Conceptual Border: United Kingdom and Tunisia -- The United Kingdom -- Tunisia -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Multiple Types of Reformism -- The Role of Ideas and Their Dissemination -- Civil Society Organizations -- Timing, Sequence, and Path Dependence -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 List of Secular Countries 1800-2000 -- Appendix 2 Sources Used to Code Institutional Secularization -- Appendix 3 Additional Robustness Checks.
Summary:
Explores why some countries adopt secular institutions while others do not. Her main finding is that the timing of secular ideas and the organizational strength of secular political groups played a key role in the adoption of secular institutions. Based on cross-national statistical evidence since 1800 and in-depth analysis of selected cases in Europe and the Middle East/North Africa, the book explores how secular ideas emerged and spread, whether and how they culminated in political organizations, and the conditions under which such organizations succeeded in establishing secular institutions.
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