Arbeitspapier
Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization through Social Networks
A vast and growing quantitative literature considers how social networks shape political mobilization but the degree to which turnout decisions are strategic remains ambiguous. Unlike previous studies, we establish personal links between voters and candidates and exploit discontinuous incentives to mobilize across district boundaries to estimate causal effects. Considering three types of network—families, co-workers, and immigrant communities—we show that a group member's candidacy acts as a mobilizational impulse that propagates through the group's network. In family networks, some of this impulse is non-strategic, surviving past district boundaries. However, the bulk of family mobilization is bound by the candidate's district boundary, as is the entirety of the mobilizational effects in the other networks.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10718
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
- Thema
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political participation
social networks
electoral geography
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Cox, Gary W.
Fiva, Jon H.
King, Max-Emil M.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Cox, Gary W.
- Fiva, Jon H.
- King, Max-Emil M.
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2023
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