Analyzing Ideological Communities in Congressional Voting Networks
Social and Information Networks
2018-10-31 v1 Computers and Society
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Abstract
We here study the behavior of political party members aiming at identifying how ideological communities are created and evolve over time in diverse (fragmented and non-fragmented) party systems. Using public voting data of both Brazil and the US, we propose a methodology to identify and characterize ideological communities, their member polarization, and how such communities evolve over time, covering a 15-year period. Our results reveal very distinct patterns across the two case studies, in terms of both structural and dynamic properties.
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@article{arxiv.1810.12345,
title = {Analyzing Ideological Communities in Congressional Voting Networks},
author = {Carlos H. G. Ferreira and Breno de Souza Matos and Jusssara M. Almeida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12345},
year = {2018}
}