Relational Data on Members of Portuguese Governments (1976–2014)

Moniz, Nuno; Campos, Adriano

doi:10.3390/data1010001

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“…During the course of one year, an exhaustive research was carried out 1 in order to gather data on the connections of all members of government in Portugal since 1976 2 (Moniz and Campos 2015). This database served as the basis for an unique study (Louçã et al 2014) in Portugal, which is built on previous work (Costa et al 2010) concerning the political history of the accumulation of wealth during one century (from 1910 until 2010).…”

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Empirical analysis of the Portuguese governments social network

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Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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The Portuguese governmental network comprising all the 776 ministers and junior ministers who were part of the 19 governments between the year 1976 and 2013 is presented and analyzed. The data contain information on connections concerning business and other types of organizations and, to our knowledge, there is no such extensive research in previous literature. Upon the presentation of the data, a social network analysis considering the temporal dimension is performed at three levels of granularity: network-level, subnetwork-level (political groups) and node-level. A discussion based on the results is presented. We conclude that although it fits two of the four preconditions of a small-world model, the Portuguese governmental network is not a small-world network, although presenting an evolution pointing toward becoming one. Also, we use a resilience test to study the evolution of the robustness of the Portuguese governmental network, pinpointing the moment when a set of members became structurally important.

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