Are you a graduate student + did you present a paper on ethnicity, nationalism, and/or migration at ISA 2024? Please send us your work to be considered for the Martin O. Heisler Award! Deadline is Oct 1. @yoniabramson.bsky.social@tsourapas.bsky.socialwww.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

Whose critique matters? The effects of critic identity and audience on public opinion by Yehonatan Abramson, Anil Menon, and Abir Gitlin is now available in Early View. @yoniabramson.bsky.social@armenon.bsky.socialajps.org/2024/03/12/w...

I am honored! Also - you are cited of course :)

That's a different one, but the best papers are constructivists who do experiments!

Thank you!!

(8) There are many people to thank, but I am especially grateful to @aecoppock.bsky.social@florianfoos.bsky.social, and Eline de Rooij - the instructors of the ICPSR Field Experiments course - for tolerating my constructivist sensibilities.

(7) This contribution, we hope, will open up a new comparative research agenda on diasporas’ naming and shaming. For example, Russians, Ethiopians, Indians, Hungarians, and Filipinos abroad have been also active in criticizing their “homeland” over various issues.

(6) In terms of human rights, consistent with past work, we find a backlash effect. Compared to respondents who were not exposed to criticism, Israelis became less supportive of improving existing practices. This was only true when the criticism was made by non-Israeli critics.

(5) Jewish-American critics, however, have a slight advantage compared to Americans regarding their intentions: Israelis evaluate Jewish-American critics as more well-intentioned than non-Jewish Americans.

(4) Our findings indicate that Israeli critics have a clear advantage: respondents evaluate Israeli critics as more well-intentioned and knowledgeable than non-Israeli critics (Jewish-Americans and Americans).