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Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata Omer F Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata Omer F. Yalcin Pennsylvania State University Substantive Problem Solution: Wikidata Political elites: people who can substantially and Wikidata is a central storage for the structured For each country: Authoritarian regimes often have a trust regularly influence political outcomes in a data of Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia. I query instances of humans, who problem, which can lead to denser kinship country [1]. I machine readable I are citizens of the country in question connections among the country's political elites. the groups that constitute elites differ I collaborative: editable by humans and were born after Jan 1. 1900 I I Figure shows Polity scores vs. (log) of density of substantially across countries machines have held a \position," I kinship networks. I can be members of parliament, military I multilingual language independent I where the position is in the same country personnel, business people, clergy and so on I graph database Figure 5: Polity Scores and Kinship I most scholars study only a country/region (e.g. I information stored in item{property{value Figure 3: Kennedy Family China, West Africa), a certain institution (e.g. triplets Austria Germany Canada Sweden Japan Slovak Republic Trinidad and Tobago 10 ● ●● ● ● ● ● ●●●● ● ●●●Ireland● ● ●● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● the parliament), or specific types of regimes Figure 2: Data Storage in Wikidata Patrick J. Kennedy ● Italy Poland ● ● ● ●● ●● ● ●● ●● Guatemala●● Myanmar (Burma) France ● ● ● ● ● ●South●● ● Africa● ● ● ● ● ● ● Lithuania SenegalNepal Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Latvia● ● ● ● ● ●● ● ●● ●● Lesotho (e.g. presidential systems, single party regimes, United States Lebanon Ted Kennedy ● Pakistan● Tunisia● ● ● ● ●● ● John F. Kennedy 5 Israel Ecuador●● ● ● ● Mozambique etc.) Edward M. Kennedy, Jr. ●Ukraine● ● Russia Niger Somalia Haiti ● Zimbabwe Tanzania ●● Robert F. Kennedy Algeria Fiji 0 Uganda ● Yemen Afghanistan Data & Method Problem ● ● Polity IV score (2018) Polity Thailand Togo ●Venezuela Jordan ● Congo Kinshasa Often, relationships of interest also differ across Singapore ● ● ● ● ● Cambodia● ● ●● Morocco Turkey Egypt ● Kathleen Kennedy Townsend −5 Congo Brazzaville Cameroon countries. ● ● Bangladesh Cuba Joseph P. Kennedy II ● ● ● ● Equatorial Guinea China Vietnam Iran Azerbaijan kinship ties are more important in some Syria I items are linked to other items ● I ● ● −10 countries than others Joe Kennedy III Bahrain Saudi Arabia makes possible weird, specific queries that we −12 −8 −4 I Log. Density of the Kinship Network I attendance at an elite school wouldn't have thought before collecting the I ethnic ties, shared religion. data Challenges any combination of these Figure 4: Brunei I I Which countries' capital cities have a mayor I we can only know as much as Wikidata knows We don't know what to look for before studying younger than forty? anyone can edit, so, prone to errors Salbiah binti Haji Sulaiman I these. Questions come along through study. Suyoi bin Osman I Who are the US presidents born in hospitals I also prone to missing data Figure 1: Wikidata.org named after women? Lim Jock Seng Crown Prince Al−Muhtadee Billah of Brunei Potential Remedies Application: Dynastic Politics Prince Mohamed Bolkiah I every item's edit history is available. One type of relationship that can be queried Yura Halim I includes total number of edits, number of with Wikidata is kinship ties. Hassanal Bolkiah unique editors, the age of the item/statement I These relationships are instances of the item Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei etc. "Wikidata property for human relationships" Ahmad Tajuddin of Brunei I can be used as a measure of reliability of a (Q22964231), and include "father," "mother," piece of information "spouse," "child," "sibling," "relative," John Higley and Michael Burton. Elite foundations of liberal democracy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. Contact [email protected].
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