Social Network Structures and the Politics of Public Goods Provision
Evidence from the Philippines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3229712 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cesi Cruz (0000-0002-6108-5605, University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Julien Labonne (0000-0002-3776-6726, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Pablo Querubín (0000-0002-2075-2192, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 486-501 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055419000789 |
| OpenAlex | W3002992174 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 63 |
We study the relationship between social structure and political incentives for public goods provision. We argue that when politicians-rather than communities-are responsible for the provision of public goods, social fractionalization may decrease the risk of elite capture and lead to increased public goods provision and electoral competition. We test this using large-scale data on family networks from over 20 million individuals in 15,000 villages of the Philippines. We take advantage of naming conventions to assess intermarriage links between families and use community detection algorithms to identify the relevant clans in those villages. We show that there is more public goods provision and political competition in villages with more fragmented social networks, a result that is robust to controlling for a large number of village characteristics and to alternative estimation techniques
Business · Clan · Competition (biology · Economics · Elite · Ethnic group · Fractionalization · Geography · Incentive · Market economy · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public good · Scale (ratio · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Social Capital and Networks
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| Unique citing works | 29 |
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| Citations per year | 4,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |