Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Callen, Michael; Ferman, Bruno; Gulzar, Saad; Hasanain, Ali; Yuchtman, Noam

doi:10.3386/w20153

Cited by 19 publications

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“…For this reason, some research has provided respondents with the information that the researcher will be made aware of their actions as a ways of manipulating extrinsic motivations stemming from possible social sanctions. In so doing, these studies have found such treatment to significantly alter behavior, making respondents more likely to act in norm-compliant ways (Bursztyn, Egorov, and Fiorin 2017;Bursztyn et al Forthcoming).…”

Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

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Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support

Valentim

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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How do stigmatized political preferences become normalized? I argue that the parliamentary representation of the radical right normalizes radical right support. Radical right politicians breach established social norms. Hence their supporters have an incentive to conceal that support. When the radical right enters parliament, however, its voters are likely to perceive that their views have been legitimized, becoming more likely to display their private preferences. I use three studies to test this argument. Study 1 employs a regression discontinuity comparing the underreport of voting for radical right parties (RRPs) above and below thresholds of parliamentary representation. Study 2 compares how much individuals report liking RRPs in post-electoral surveys depending on interview mode. Study 3 employs a difference-in-differences that looks into the underreport of UKIP vote before and after entering parliament. The results support the argument and highlight the role of political institutions in defining the acceptability of behaviors in society.

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Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

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Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support

Valentim

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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“…The paper is also related to the literature that has studied the determinants and implications of anti-Americanism or anti-Western values. See for instance Gentzkow and Shapiro (2004), Beath, Christia and Enikolopov (2017), Cantoni et al (2016, and Bursztyn et al (2020).…”

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In Vaccines We Trust? The Effects of the CIA’s Vaccine Ruse on Immunization in Pakistan

Martínez-Bravo

Stegmann

2021

Journal of the European Economic Association

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In July 2011, the Pakistani public learnt that the CIA had used a vaccination campaign as cover to capture Osama Bin Laden. The Taliban leveraged on this information and launched an anti-vaccine propaganda campaign to discredit vaccines and vaccination workers. We evaluate the effects of these events on immunization by implementing a Difference-in-Differences strategy across cohorts and districts. We find that vaccination rates declined between 23% and 39% in districts in the 90th percentile of Islamist support relative to those in the 10th percentile. These results suggest that information discrediting vaccination campaigns can negatively affect trust in health services and demand for immunization.

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“…Finally, Section 5 concludes. 6 Our paper also relates to a literature on identity in economics (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000;Akerlof, 2016;Akerlof and Rayo, 2020;Atkin et al, 2020;Bursztyn et al, 2020;Chen and Li, 2009;Cohn et al, 2015;Enke et al, 2019a;Jia and Persson, 2019;Lowes et al, 2015;Oh, 2019).…”

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Interregional Contact and National Identity

Bagues

Roth

2020

SSRN Journal

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We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions on beliefs, preferences and national identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts to different locations throughout Spain, with tailored survey data. Being randomly assigned to complete military service outside of one's region of residence fosters contact with conscripts from other regions, and increases sympathy towards people from the region of service, measured several decades later. We also observe an increase in identification with Spain for individuals originating from regions with peripheral nationalism. Our evidence suggests that intergroup exposure in early adulthood can have long-lasting effects on individual preferences and national identity.

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Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support

Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support

In Vaccines We Trust? The Effects of the CIA’s Vaccine Ruse on Immunization in Pakistan

Interregional Contact and National Identity

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