Mashail Malik
Biographic Data
| ID | 3820996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mashail Malik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mashail |
| FAMILY NAME | Malik |
| SIGNATURE | MALIK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0387-2133 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Defiant pride
Why do voters often remain loyal to ethnic parties despite receiving little in terms of material welfare? I develop a theory focused on the role of dignity concerns in explaining within‐group variation in ethnic party loyalty. Group members who face discrimination from state agencies dominated by outgroups respond with defiant pride, which manifests as ethnicity becoming a larger part of the self‐concept. This heightened ethnic identification cre…
Third Party Presence and the Political Salience of Ethnicity in Survey Data
In developing countries, in-person surveys are frequently conducted in the presence of respondents’ family, friends, or neighbors. What effect, if any, does their presence have on survey responses? We use data from an original survey in Karachi, Pakistan, to examine how such presence affects responses to questions related to ethnic identity and ethnic politics. We find that respondents are systematically more likely to express greater support for…
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South
City residents in the Global South commonly encounter the police. Yet, outside of established democracies, we know little about how ethnicity shapes everyday policing in diverse urban contexts. Existing approaches generate competing expectations, with some arguing that officers are more rather than less discriminatory towards coethnics. We test these theories through a survey experiment conducted in Karachi, Pakistan—one of the world’s largest me…
Changing Americans' Attitudes about Immigration
Our tendency to interpret facts in ways that are consistent with our prior beliefs impedes evidence-based attempts to persuade partisans to change their views on pressing societal issues such as immigration. Accordingly, most prior work finds that favorable information about the impact of immigration has little or no influence on policy preferences. Here, we propose that appealing to individuals' moral values can bolster the persuasive power of i…
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values
What explains the backlash against the liberal international order? Are its causes economic or cultural? We argue that while cultural values are central to understanding the backlash, those values are, in part, endogenous and shaped by long-run economic change. Using an original survey of the British population, we show that individuals living in regions where the local labor market was more substantially affected by imports from China have signi…
Contesting narratives of repression
Authoritarian regimes frequently attempt to justify repression by accusing their opponents of violent behavior. Are such claims successful at persuading the public to accept state-sponsored violence, and can these claims be contested effectively by human rights organizations seeking to publicize evidence contradicting the regime's narrative? To evaluate these questions, we conducted a survey experiment in Egypt using Facebook advertisements to re…
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values
What explains the backlash against the liberal international order? Are its causes economic or cultural? We argue that while cultural values are central to understanding the backlash, those values are, in part, endogenous and shaped by long-run economic change. Using an original survey of the British population, we show that individuals living in regions where the local labor market was more substantially affected by imports from China have signi…
Contesting narratives of repression
Authoritarian regimes frequently attempt to justify repression by accusing their opponents of violent behavior. Are such claims successful at persuading the public to accept state-sponsored violence, and can these claims be contested effectively by human rights organizations seeking to publicize evidence contradicting the regime's narrative? To evaluate these questions, we conducted a survey experiment in Egypt using Facebook advertisements to re…
Changing Americans' Attitudes about Immigration
Our tendency to interpret facts in ways that are consistent with our prior beliefs impedes evidence-based attempts to persuade partisans to change their views on pressing societal issues such as immigration. Accordingly, most prior work finds that favorable information about the impact of immigration has little or no influence on policy preferences. Here, we propose that appealing to individuals' moral values can bolster the persuasive power of i…
Third Party Presence and the Political Salience of Ethnicity in Survey Data
In developing countries, in-person surveys are frequently conducted in the presence of respondents’ family, friends, or neighbors. What effect, if any, does their presence have on survey responses? We use data from an original survey in Karachi, Pakistan, to examine how such presence affects responses to questions related to ethnic identity and ethnic politics. We find that respondents are systematically more likely to express greater support for…
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South
City residents in the Global South commonly encounter the police. Yet, outside of established democracies, we know little about how ethnicity shapes everyday policing in diverse urban contexts. Existing approaches generate competing expectations, with some arguing that officers are more rather than less discriminatory towards coethnics. We test these theories through a survey experiment conducted in Karachi, Pakistan—one of the world’s largest me…
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values
What explains the backlash against the liberal international order? Are its causes economic or cultural? We argue that while cultural values are central to understanding the backlash, those values are, in part, endogenous and shaped by long-run economic change. Using an original survey of the British population, we show that individuals living in regions where the local labor market was more substantially affected by imports from China have signi…
Contesting narratives of repression
Authoritarian regimes frequently attempt to justify repression by accusing their opponents of violent behavior. Are such claims successful at persuading the public to accept state-sponsored violence, and can these claims be contested effectively by human rights organizations seeking to publicize evidence contradicting the regime's narrative? To evaluate these questions, we conducted a survey experiment in Egypt using Facebook advertisements to re…
Changing Americans' Attitudes about Immigration
Our tendency to interpret facts in ways that are consistent with our prior beliefs impedes evidence-based attempts to persuade partisans to change their views on pressing societal issues such as immigration. Accordingly, most prior work finds that favorable information about the impact of immigration has little or no influence on policy preferences. Here, we propose that appealing to individuals' moral values can bolster the persuasive power of i…
Third Party Presence and the Political Salience of Ethnicity in Survey Data
In developing countries, in-person surveys are frequently conducted in the presence of respondents’ family, friends, or neighbors. What effect, if any, does their presence have on survey responses? We use data from an original survey in Karachi, Pakistan, to examine how such presence affects responses to questions related to ethnic identity and ethnic politics. We find that respondents are systematically more likely to express greater support for…
Ethnicity and Policing in the Global South
City residents in the Global South commonly encounter the police. Yet, outside of established democracies, we know little about how ethnicity shapes everyday policing in diverse urban contexts. Existing approaches generate competing expectations, with some arguing that officers are more rather than less discriminatory towards coethnics. We test these theories through a survey experiment conducted in Karachi, Pakistan—one of the world’s largest me…
Defiant pride
Why do voters often remain loyal to ethnic parties despite receiving little in terms of material welfare? I develop a theory focused on the role of dignity concerns in explaining within‐group variation in ethnic party loyalty. Group members who face discrimination from state agencies dominated by outgroups respond with defiant pride, which manifests as ethnicity becoming a larger part of the self‐concept. This heightened ethnic identification cre…
Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Authoritarianism (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)