The Influence of Social Networks on the U.S. Senate Roll-Call Voting

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jang Hyun Kim ◽  
George A. Barnett ◽  
K. Hazel Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
United States Senate ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Party Membership ◽  
Roll Call Voting ◽  
Complex Models ◽  
Network Properties ◽  
Committee Membership ◽  
Relational Resources

Along with individuals’ ideological factors, various network properties play a crucial role in the process of legislators’ political decision making. Social networks among legislators provide relational resources through which communication occurs, exerting social influence among the members in a network. This paper examines six social relationships among the members of the 109th United States Senate as predictors of senatorial voting (roll call votes), shared committees, co-sponsorships, party membership, PAC donation, geographical contiguity, and internet hyperlinks, which may be considered as direct or indirect representations of communication networks. The six networks are modeled using MRQAP, and results suggest that roll call voting was predicted by party membership, co-sponsorship, geographical proximity, and PAC donation networks, while shared committee membership did not contribute significantly. As for hyperlinks, results were mixed, showing a small variance of contribution in a simpler model but not significant with more complex models.

Comparing the Influence of Social Networks Online and Offline on Decision Making

2012 ◽  
pp. 198-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jang Hyun Kim ◽  
George A. Barnett ◽  
Kyunghee “Hazel” Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Party Membership ◽  
Complex Models ◽  
Network Properties ◽  
Committee Membership ◽  
Relational Resources

Along with individuals’ ideological factors, various network properties play a crucial role in the process of legislators’ political decision-making. Social networks among legislators provide relational resources through which communication occurs, exerting social influence among the members in a network. This chapter examines six social relationships among the members of the 109th United States Senate as predictors of senatorial voting (roll call votes), (1) shared committees, (2) co-sponsorships, (3) party membership, (4) PAC donation, (5) geographical contiguity, and (6) internet hyperlinks, which may be considered as direct or indirect representations of communication networks. The six networks are modeled using MRQAP. Results suggest that roll call voting was predicted by party membership, co-sponsorship, geographical proximity, and PAC donation networks, while shared committee membership did not contribute significantly. As for hyperlinks, the result was mixed, showing a small variance of contribution in a simpler model but not significant with more complex models. Suggestions for future research are addressed.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Buchler
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Model ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Spatial Theory ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Policy Space ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Roll Call Voting ◽  
Legislative Session ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conventional Models

Spatial theory is divided between models of elections and models of roll call voting, neither of which alone can explain congressional polarization. This chapter discusses the history of spatial theory, why it is important to link the two strands of spatial models, and the value of reversing the order of conventional models. Conventional models place an election before policy decisions are made. This chapter proposes a unified spatial model of Congress in which the conventional order is reversed. First, there is a legislative session, then an election in which voters respond retrospectively, not to the locations candidates claim to hold, but to the bundles of roll call votes that incumbents cast to incrementally adopt their locations in the policy space. Such a model is best suited to explaining three puzzles: why do legislators adopt extreme positions, how do they win, and what role do parties play in the process?

Gender and Roll Call Voting in the New York State Assembly

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle A. Barnello
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Roll Call Voting ◽  
York State

scholarly journals #VEMPRARUA: jornadas de um espaço em rede

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 240-255
Author(s):  
Gustavo Souza Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
The Core ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Palabras Clave

  As jornadas de junho se constituíram como um movimento de insurgência disposto sobre o Brasil no período de junho de 2013, com base nas iniciativas do MPL em protesto contra a tarifa do transporte público em São Paulo, mas cujo escopo se ampliou e abarcou uma série de demandas sociais cuja origem é o âmago da sociedade brasileira na extensão e nas particularidades do território nacional. Na dinâmica dos atos, redes de comunicação alternativa e autônoma foram instrumentos de movimentação, informação e coesão das manifestações, por meio de dispositivos e redes sociais. A proposta deste estudo foi refletir as dinâmicas das Jornadas de Junho, considerando a dimensão do ciberespaço como elemento aglutinador de práticas socioespaciais e de insurgência, na busca de uma aproximação entre Geografia e ciberespaço no contexto do exame do caso em questão. Palavras-chave: Jornadas de Junho. Movimentos Sociais. Espaço. Ciberespaço. Rede.   #VEMPRARUA: journeys of a space in network ABSTRACT The June days were constituted as an insurgency movement arranged over Brazil in the period of June 2013, based on the MPL initiatives in protest against the São Paulo public transportation fare, but whose scope has been expanded and encompassed a series of social demands whose origin is the core of Brazilian society in the extension and particularities of the national territory. In the dynamic of the acts, alternative and autonomous communication networks were instruments of movement, information and cohesion of the manifestations, through devices and social networks. The purpose of this study was to reflect the dynamics of the June Conference, considering the dimension of cyberspace as an agglutinating element of socio-spatial and insurgency practices, in the search for an approximation between Geography and cyberspace in the context of the examination of the case in question. Keywords: June Jorneys. Social Movements. Space. Cyberspace. Network.   #VEMPRARUA: jornadas de un espacio en red RESUMEN Las jornadas de junio se constituyeron como un movimiento de insurgencia dispuesto sobre Brasil en el período de junio de 2013, con base en las iniciativas del MPL en protesta contra la tarifa del transporte público en São Paulo, pero cuyo alcance se amplió y abarcó una serie de las demandas sociales cuyo origen es el núcleo de la sociedad brasileña en la extensión y en las particularidades del territorio nacional. En la dinámica de los actos, redes de comunicación alternativa y autónoma fueron instrumentos de movimiento, información y cohesión de las manifestaciones, por medio de dispositivos y redes sociales. La propuesta de este estudio fue reflejar las dinámicas de las Jornadas de Junio, considerando la dimensión del ciberespacio como elemento aglutinante de prácticas socioespaciales y de insurgencia, en la búsqueda de una aproximación entre Geografía y ciberespacio en el contexto del examen del caso en cuestión. Palabras clave: Jornadas de Junio. Movimientos Sociales. Espacio. Ciberespacio. Red.

scholarly journals Marketing and Campaign Management via Social Networks and the Effects of Electronic Advertising

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Foued Sabbagh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Campaign Management ◽  
Electronic Products ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Electronic Marketing ◽  
Electronic Advertising

This paper aims to show that the marketing and management of advertising campaigns have contributed in a positive and growing way since the nineties until now bring in targeted customers and increase sales of electronic products. Social communication networks are transformed into the promoting and marketing advertising forum in order to automatically attract customers without the need for traditional sales methods. In this sense, electronic marketing represents the space of commercial transactions of the future. Therefore, this type of marketing and the management of campaigns promoting social media via social networks have a direct impact on internet users by the effect of electronic advertising.

scholarly journals Automated monitoring of behavior reveals bursty interaction patterns and rapid spreading dynamics in honeybee social networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (7) ◽  
pp. 1433-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Gernat ◽  
Vikyath D. Rao ◽  
Martin Middendorf ◽  
Harry Dankowicz ◽  
Nigel Goldenfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Reference Network ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Automated Monitoring ◽  
Phone Calls

Social networks mediate the spread of information and disease. The dynamics of spreading depends, among other factors, on the distribution of times between successive contacts in the network. Heavy-tailed (bursty) time distributions are characteristic of human communication networks, including face-to-face contacts and electronic communication via mobile phone calls, email, and internet communities. Burstiness has been cited as a possible cause for slow spreading in these networks relative to a randomized reference network. However, it is not known whether burstiness is an epiphenomenon of human-specific patterns of communication. Moreover, theory predicts that fast, bursty communication networks should also exist. Here, we present a high-throughput technology for automated monitoring of social interactions of individual honeybees and the analysis of a rich and detailed dataset consisting of more than 1.2 million interactions in five honeybee colonies. We find that bees, like humans, also interact in bursts but that spreading is significantly faster than in a randomized reference network and remains so even after an experimental demographic perturbation. Thus, while burstiness may be an intrinsic property of social interactions, it does not always inhibit spreading in real-world communication networks. We anticipate that these results will inform future models of large-scale social organization and information and disease transmission, and may impact health management of threatened honeybee populations.

Roll Call Voting by Congress

1982 ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
James B. Kau ◽  
Paul H. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Roll Call ◽  
Roll Call Voting

Graph Mining Techniques

2013 ◽  
pp. 446-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Appel ◽  
Christos Faloutsos ◽  
Caetano Traina Junior
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Real World ◽  
Biological Networks ◽  
Graph Mining ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Computer Communication Networks ◽  
Computer Communication ◽  
Good Pattern ◽  
As Graph

Graphs appear in several settings, like social networks, recommendation systems, computer communication networks, gene/protein biological networks, among others. A large amount of graph patterns, as well as graph generator models that mimic such patterns have been proposed over the last years. However, a deep and recurring question still remains: “What is a good pattern?” The answer is related to finding a pattern or a tool able to help distinguishing between actual real-world and fake graphs. Here we explore the ability of ShatterPlots, a simple and powerful algorithm to tease out patterns of real graphs, helping us to spot fake/masked graphs. The idea is to force a graph to reach a critical (“Shattering”) point, randomly deleting edges, and study its properties at that point.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document