id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_zooqta7tdbb3ji7eqslroou7rm Mason Youngblood Extremist ideology as a complex contagion: the spread of far-right radicalization in the United States between 2005 and 2017 2020 10 .pdf application/pdf 9511 908 57 Extremist ideology as a complex contagion: the spread of far-right radicalization in the United States between 2005 and 2017 Increasing levels of far-right extremist violence have generated public concern about the In this study, I applied an epidemiological method called two-component spatiotemporal intensity modeling to data from 416 far-right extremists exposed in the United poverty and hate group activity are more likely to experience farright extremism, whereas regions with a larger non-white population, more Republican voting, and higher rates of unemployment are less likely to experience far-right extremism. of people in this study were radicalized on social media independently of an extremist group, indicating that solo actors are increasing role of social media in far-right extremism and radicalization is well established (Costello and Hawdon, 2018; Holt inequality on hate groups or crime either used state-level data Extremist ideology as a complex contagion: the�spread of far-right radicalization in the United States between 2005 and 2017 ./cache/work_zooqta7tdbb3ji7eqslroou7rm.pdf ./txt/work_zooqta7tdbb3ji7eqslroou7rm.txt