Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282406 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10718
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
political participation
social networks
electoral geography
JEL: 
D72
D85
C33
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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