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How do new groups assume positions of political power? Theories of conflict focus on between-group conflict; I propose a model where conflict starts within groups.
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How do new groups assume positions of political power? Theories of conflict focus on between-group conflict; I propose a model where conflict starts within groups.
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In the spirit of Padgett & Ansell's "Rise of the Medici", I built the kinship relations among all ~1500 Chilean parliamentarians in 1828-1894.
This was a *very* cohesive elite, with more than 1000 parliamentarians falling into the network's giant component.
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This was a *very* cohesive elite, with more than 1000 parliamentarians falling into the network's giant component.
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The Chilean elites had a Russian-doll type structure, with a cohesive core surrounded by increasingly sparse layers.
The fig. below uses Moody & White's structural cohesion to identify layers of centrality, and annotates the 8 most representative families per layer.
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The fig. below uses Moody & White's structural cohesion to identify layers of centrality, and annotates the 8 most representative families per layer.
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