Buchot, Tom; Couttenier, Mathieu; Laugerette, Lucile; … - 2024
Bai et al. (2023) examine the impact of individual networks on state building, focusing on the role of the leader Zeng Guofan during the Taiping Revolution in China between 1850 and 1864. In their main results, the authors demonstrate that being connected to Zeng increases the number of...