Political families are common across many countries in Asia, including Pakistan. Politicians from political families (PPFs) make decisions with the goal of maximizing the political prospects of the entire family, in contrast to non-PPFs, who maximize their individual political self-interest. This changes the impact they have on their country. Scholars find that the presence of PPFs is associated with significantly worse development and governance outcomes, including in Pakistan. However, we know much less about their impact on political outcomes. In this paper, we use original data from a 2018 systematic national survey of about 150 Pakistani politicians to investigate PPFs’ support for key democratic institutions and practices. We find that compared to non-PPFs, Pakistani PPFs are significantly more supportive of instrumentally useful institutions and practices such as free and fair elections, an independent judiciary, and a free media, but no different in their low level of support for human rights.

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政治家庭和对巴基斯坦民主的支持

政治家庭在亚洲许多国家都很常见，包括巴基斯坦。来自政治家族 (PPF) 的政治家以最大化整个家庭的政治前景为目标做出决策，而非 PPF 则将个人政治私利最大化。这改变了他们对国家的影响。学者们发现，PPF 的存在与显着更差的发展和治理结果相关，包括在巴基斯坦。然而，我们对它们对政治结果的影响知之甚少。在本文中，我们使用来自 2018 年对约 150 名巴基斯坦政治家进行的系统性全国调查的原始数据来调查 PPF 对关键民主制度和实践的支持。我们发现，与非 PPF 相比，