Senate: Cosponsorship network among the 5 most liberal and 5 most...

In jason-morgan/ina: Data Collection for the book Inferential Network Analysis

Description

In this directed network an edge from i to j indicates that senator i cosponsored at least two bills sponsored by j in the 106th Congress.

Usage

data(Senate)

Format

A directed statnet network object with 10 nodes:

vertex.names

vertex attribute, name of each senator in the network

ideol

vertex attribute, DW-nominate ideology score of each senator

dist

network attribute, Euclidean distance in lat/lon units, between state capitals

Source

http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/cosponsorship.htm

References

Fowler, J. H. (2006). Connecting the Congress: A study of cosponsorship networks. Political Analysis, 14(4), 456-487.

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