Politician Family Networks and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the Philippines

We demonstrate the importance of politician social networks for electoral outcomes. Using large-scale data on family networks from over 20 million individuals in 15,000 villages in the Philippines, we show that candidates for public office are disproportionately drawn from more central families and...

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Published in:The American economic review 2017-10, Vol.107 (10), p.3006-3037
Main Authors: Cruz, Cesi, Labonne, Julien, Querubín, Pablo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Candidates
Clientelism
Eigenvectors
Elections
Families & family life
Family names
Family networks
Incumbents
Kinship networks
Network centrality
Political candidates
Political elections
Politicians
Politics
Presidential elections
Social networks
Socioeconomic factors
Villages
Vote buying
Voting
Wealth
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