Financial dependence on extremist organizations delayed members’ exit

Evidence

Financial instability. This factor was mentioned in 22 cases. Seven individuals noted financial challenges as a driver to their extremism. Financial challenges were also mentioned when people were in extremist organizations, causing some to work in jobs tied to the organization itself and leading to delays in leaving the organization. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 37

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s hypothesis test: financial entanglement is an economic bond to the group that the withdrawal-of-conflict model may underweight as an exit barrier. — connects to: Stopping extremism and abandoning its beliefs are distinct forms of exit — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 189; Disillusionment and burnout are the most common reasons former extremists exit groups — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 45; Attempting to quit extremism can itself escalate a person into a worse group — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 366 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Geopolitical leverage and economic value delayed Muslim persecution in Spain. #corroborates (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 120
• Disillusionment and burnout are the most common reasons former extremists exit groups #complicates (0.78) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 45
• Low-status group members exit when subcultures offer a destination #expands (0.78) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 400
• Widespread individual exit strategies undermine collective mobilization and perpetuate subordinate status. #qualifies (0.76) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2747
• Stopping extremism and abandoning its beliefs are distinct forms of exit #qualifies (0.75) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 189
• Attempting to quit extremism can itself escalate a person into a worse group #complicates (0.75) — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 366
• State cooperation made lynching a mechanism of wealth confiscation #expands (0.72) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 303