Patronage networks are said to grant access to a regime's inner circle, but researchers have
only systematically studied ties to powerful leaders. This paper examines the whole informal …

Iraq is a country with exceptional natural resource wealth, but also consistent political
turbulence manifested by high levels of state corruption, patronage networks, weak …

In many observational studies, the true treatment assignment mechanism is not
individualistic, allowing the probability of treatment of a unit to depend on quantities beyond …

This paper argues and provides evidence for how social network analysis can explain the
internal workings of non-democratic regimes. It provides the intuition for a theory that relates …

Country experts often search for informal ties to a patron when explaining why some political
elites make it into a regime's inner circle. This paper shows that in the case of the members …