Absent local amplification does not rule out anti-finance sentiment operating through national framing.

Evidence

The fact that we find no magnification effect of the finance variables (or of Jews in finance) need not imply that anti-finance sentiment did not matter, but rather that the cross sectional (local) involvement of Jews in finance did not matter differentially during the crisis. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 143

Categorization

• SEED: This interpretive move — a null cross-sectional result coexisting with a national-level channel — is a useful essay point about when absence of local heterogeneity does and does not undermine an identification claim.
• XREF: Parallels the distinction in media-effects research between local contact effects versus national agenda-setting effects. — connects to: General anti-finance resentment does not drive the Nazi vote effect. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 141; The nation is paired with sentiment while the state is not — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 433; Nations pair naturally with sentiment while states do not. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 433

Broader Connections

• The nation is paired with sentiment while the state is not #expands (0.72) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 433
• Nations pair naturally with sentiment while states do not. #expands (0.72) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 433