Politician family networks and electoral outcomes: evidence from the Philippines

We demonstrate the importance of politician social networks for electoral outcomes. Using largescale 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 f...

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主要な著者: Cruz, C, Labonne, J, Querubin, P
フォーマット: Journal article
出版事項: American Economic Association 2017