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Detecting the money networks of US politics…
David LazerNortheastern University
The money ecosystem of US politics
• The network and organizational dimensions
From Lin and Lazer (2010)
Geography of money
From Onnela and Lazer (2009)
Enormous regional inequalities…
• Per capita contributions, zip 66508 (Marshall KS) for 1999-2010:
• Per capita contributions, zip 10013 (New York City) for 1999-2010:
• $4.71
• $178.48
Population density, market niches, and collective action
• If you can’t find a niche in Manhattan, you can’t find it anywhere…
• The potential of making contributions that are “noticed”
• The utilization of networks to mobilize people• The existence of a critical mass for almost
anything (who wants a fundraising party with 3 people?)
The Political-Money networks
From Ruths and Lazer (2009)
Prominent pairs…
• Boston– Ryan Vincent & Carla Meyer - board members
• Washington DC– Ed Rogers & Lanny Griffith - partners in lobbying
firm• Los Angeles– Spielberg & Katzenberg - film producers
• NYC– Debra Black & Judith Hannan - board members
Population density of affluent…
• A key predictor of per capita contributions is # of affluent per square mile
The organizational dimension
Bottom line…
• Median voter vs median dollar…• Heavy bias toward need to “harvest money”
from geographically concentrated top few percent
• Corporation as setting to mobilize money• Democratic bias, because of Democratic tilt of
high population density areas
Where now?
• The Internet and Obama ’08: – the irrelevance of geography?– digging deeper into the income hierarchy?
• Citizens United– The 1% (or so) vs the .0001%– The importance of very different types of
networks and networking behavior