Mitchell centre seminar series
| Dates: | 20 February 2019 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Naim Bro Khomasi |
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Naim Bro Khomasi, University of Cambridge
The impact of Kinship Networks on Party Formation and Civil War Alignments in Nineteenth-Century Chile
Using social network analysis I map the kinship ties among all 1,449 members of the political elites of Chile in the period 1828-1894, including all parliamentarians and ministers. I use community detection algorithms to identify core families, and I follow the electoral trajectories of families over six decades. Based on the electoral data, I infer the political allegiance of families in two civil wars: 1829 and 1891. Further, based on secondary sources I identify the families that founded the Chilean Liberal party in 1849. The Liberal party was founded by families that were defeated in the 1829 civil war together with a subset of the winning side that was marginalised after the conflict. Using QAP regressions, I show that political alignments in the civil war of 1891 are predicted by family political alignments in the civil war of 1829.
Speaker
Naim Bro Khomasi
Organisation: University of Cambridge
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Humanities Bridgeford Street
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