Measurement and theory in legislative networks: The evolving topology of Congressional collaboration

Kirkland, Justin H.; Gross, Justin H.

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2012.11.001

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“…In a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee, Representative Wally Herger touted both the number of cosponsors as well as the bipartisanship of the cosponsors for the Marriage Penalty Relief Act (Herger, 1967). These examples give credence to the notion that cosponsorship is meaningful and a signal of relationship between legislators, even though the cosponsorship literature is sometimes criticized for overstating the potential network connection provided by common cosponsorship (Kirkland and Gross, 2014).…”

Section: The Social Legislator: What Connects Lawmakers?mentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Particularly influential is the work by Samuel Patterson, who made his first mark with his 1959 article on interpersonal contacts between members of the Wisconsin Assembly (Patterson, 1959), investigating friendship ties between lawmakers and the friendship cliques they formed. Apparently the first to have applied sociometric methods to the study of a legislature (Kirkland and Gross, 2014), Patterson identified as the determinants of friendship choices leadership positions, geography, seniority, previous alliances, and seating arrangements on the floor.…”

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Legislative Networks

Ringe¹,

Victor²,

Cho³

2016

Oxford Handbooks Online

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Legislatures are naturally interactive institutions. Creating laws, engaging in representation and oversight, and serving constituents are social processes. Legislators have many connections with each other, some preexisting or natural and some created while in office. This chapter explores various ways to understand legislative politics through a relational lens. Legislators rely on networks for a variety of functions, including collaboration, information diffusion, policy coordination, coalition building, and voting. Relationships are a fundamental aspect of how legislators, and those who interact with them, function. The chapter examines the history of how networks have been studied in legislatures and describes various challenges this field of study has recently overcome, as well as other challenges yet to be solved in studying legislative politics using networks. It relays the dominant existing applications and methods in this subfield and suggests several fruitful avenues for future research.

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Section: The Social Legislator: What Connects Lawmakers?mentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legislative Networks

Ringe¹,

Victor²,

Cho³

2016

Oxford Handbooks Online

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“…An increasing body of research, mostly dealing with the US Congress, focuses on 'the micro-foundations' of legislative decision-making (Fowler 2006a(Fowler , 2006bKirkland 2011;Kirkland and Gross 2014;Tam Cho and Fowler 2010). Networks among MPs are shown to be important for understanding parliamentary outputs at both aggregate (i.e.…”

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The influence of co-sponsorship on MPs’ agenda-setting success

Sciarini

Fischer

Gava

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West European Politics

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“…For applications of LSM in political networks research see Ward, Siverson and Cao (2007), Kirkland (2012), Krafft et al (2012), Ward, Ahlquist and Rozenas (2013), Kirkland and Gross (2014), Cao and Ward (2014).…”

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Statistical Inference in Political Networks Research

Desmarais¹,

Cranmer²

2016

Oxford Handbooks Online

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Researchers interested in statistically modeling network data have a well-established and quickly growing set of approaches from which to choose. Several of these methods have been regularly applied in research on political networks, while others have yet to permeate the field.Here, we review the most prominent methods of inferential network analysis -both for crosssectionally and longitudinally observed networks including (temporal) exponential random graph models, latent space models, the quadratic assignment procedure, and stochastic actor oriented models. For each method, we summarize its analytic form, identify prominent published applications in political science and discuss computational considerations. We conclude with a set of guidelines for selecting a method for a given application.

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Measurement and theory in legislative networks: The evolving topology of Congressional collaboration

Cited by 63 publications

References 38 publications

Legislative Networks

Legislative Networks

The influence of co-sponsorship on MPs’ agenda-setting success

Statistical Inference in Political Networks Research

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