Replication Data for: \"Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization through Social Networks\"

A vast and growing quantitative literature considers how social networks shape political mobilization but the degree to which turnout decisions are strategic remains ambiguous. Unlike previous studies, we establish personal links between voters and candidates and exploit discontinuous incentives to mobilize across district boundaries to estimate causal effects. Considering three types of networks—families, co-workers, and immigrant communities—we show that a group member’s candidacy acts as a mobilizational impulse that propagates through the group’s network. In family networks, some of this impulse is non-strategic, surviving past district boundaries. However, the bulk of family mobilization is bound by the candidate’s district boundary, as is the entirety of the mobilizational effects in the other networks.学界已形成规模庞大且持续增长的定量研究脉络，探讨社交网络如何塑造政治动员，但选民投票决策的战略化程度仍尚无明确定论。与既往研究不同，本研究构建了选民与候选人之间的个人关联，并借助选区边界处的非连续性动员激励，以精准估计因果效应。本研究聚焦家庭、同事与移民社区三类网络，研究发现群体成员的参选行为会形成动员推动力，并在该群体的网络中扩散传导。在家庭网络中，部分动员推动力不具备战略属性，能够突破选区边界产生影响，但家庭网络中的绝大多数动员效果仍受候选人所在选区的边界约束，其余两类网络的动员效应则完全受此约束。