Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2025
Chapter 8 focuses in on showing how the political geography of electoral autocracies shapes the partisan homogeneity of social networks. The chapter begins by outlining a process for measuring political geography. It then uses the measure to show that political geography is an excellent predictor of the partisan homogeneity of partisan networks, even controlling for other key factors. Third, it provides evidence that the relationship between geography and networks is not simply an average treatment effect. Finally, it uses the survey data to illustrate what happens to people who move between stronghold types: The social networks of people who move to new strongholds appear to change partisan identities to match their new location.
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