Community Structure in Congressional Cosponsorship Networks (2007)
Zhang, Yan, Friend, A. J., Traud, Amanda L., Porter, Mason A., Fowler, James H., Mucha, Peter J.
We study the United States Congress by constructing networks between Members of Congress based on the legislation that they cosponsor. Using the concept of modularity, we identify the community...
Community structure in the U.S. House of Representatives (2006)
Porter, Mason A., Friend, A. J., Mucha, Peter J., Newman, M. E. J.
Studies like these indicate that network theory can be of substantial use in uncovering collaborative structure in political bodies such as the U.S. Congress, without requiring input in the form of...
Community Structure in the United States House of Representatives (2006)
Porter, Mason A., Mucha, Peter J., Newman, M. E. J., Friend, A. J.
We investigate the networks of committee and subcommittee assignments in the United States House of Representatives from the 101st--108th Congresses, with the committees connected by ``interlocks''...