Replication data for: Politician Family Networks and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the Philippines

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Cesi Cruz; Julien Labonne; Pablo Querubín

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Project Description

Summary: 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 family network centrality contributes to higher vote shares during the elections. Consistent with our theory of political intermediation, we present evidence that family network centrality facilitates relationships of political exchange. Moreover, we show that family networks exercise an effect independent of wealth, historical elite status, or previous electoral success.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: [Elections, candidates, politics, centrality, decentralisation, social networks]

JEL Classification:
      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      D85 Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
      O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

Geographic Coverage: Philippines

Data Type(s): [administrative records data, census/enumeration data, observational data]

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: individual, family, mayoral candidate,

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V1 [2019-10-12]

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