Comparing Political Networks

Abstract

Comparing political networks over time and space is a powerful strategy to support causal explanations of the antecedents or consequences of network structures. Comparisons over space can include cross-country or within-country comparisons across regions or policy sectors. Comparisons over time can include network observations at several discrete time points or be based on the dynamic assessment of network evolution. Despite the potential benefit of such comparisons to our understanding of political networks, such research designs remain rare. The panel thus invites papers with an explicit comparative research design related to political networks.

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