Blood is Thicker than Water: Family Ties to Political Power Worldwide

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dc.contributor.authorJalalzai, Faridaen
dc.contributor.authorRincker, Megen
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-14T19:57:04Zen
dc.date.available2022-01-14T19:57:04Zen
dc.date.issued2018-01-01en
dc.date.updated2022-01-14T19:57:02Zen
dc.description.abstractThis article analyzes the relevance of family ties for the recruitment of chief executives - presidents or prime ministers - with special emphasis on gender. Based on a cross-national data-set examining political chief executives from 2000-2017 in five world regions (Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and North America), we test several hypotheses and present four main results. First, belonging to a political family (BPF), is an advantage to entering national executive positions around the world, for both democracies and non-democracies. Among those with a sizeable number of executives in this period, regions range from 9 percent (Africa) to 13 percent (Latin America and Europe) of executives BPF. Second, executives' family ties are more powerful (with a previous chief executive) in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and more direct (with an immediate family member) in Asia and Africa. Across the globe, women only made up 6% of chief executives in the time period. Third, females who manage to become chief executives are more often BPF than their male counterparts, particularly in Asia and Latin America. Fourth, regardless of region, family ties nearly always originate from men, not women.en
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dc.format.extentPages 54-72en
dc.format.extent19 page(s)en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.4.54-72en
dc.identifier.issn0172-6404en
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.orcidJalalzai, Farida [0000-0001-7857-0933]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/107647en
dc.identifier.volume43en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherGESISen
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dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectFamily tiesen
dc.subjectexecutiveen
dc.subjectpolitical recruitmenten
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectdemocracyen
dc.subject2103 Historical Studiesen
dc.titleBlood is Thicker than Water: Family Ties to Political Power Worldwideen
dc.title.serialHistorical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschungen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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