Examining Polarization in Political Social Media: A Case of Twitter and the 2011 Canadian Federal Election

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Gruzd
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Social Networks Analysis ◽  
Networks Analysis

The paper investigates whether or not political polarization exists in social media by using social networks analysis to analyze a sample of 1,492 users on Twitter.com, a popular microblogging platform, during the 2011 Canadian Federal Election.

Political Polarization and Cabinet Stability in Multiparty Systems: A Social Networks Analysis of European Parliaments, 1945–98

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 805-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeev Maoz ◽  
Zeynep Somer-Topcu
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Social Networks Analysis ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Combining Information

Bargaining theory predicts that as a political system’s polarization increases, parties have fewer opportunities to form coalitions without resorting to elections, inducing constraints on the management of political crises. This study tests the hypothesis that political polarization has a positive effect on cabinet duration, and draws on Social Networks Analysis to conceptualize and measure political polarization. Combining information about party ideology, inter-party distances and party size, this polarization index measures the structure of political systems in terms of possible and actual coalitions, and identifies proto-coalitions ex ante. The propositions regarding the effect of the bargaining environment on cabinet survival are tested with data covering sixteen European states in 1945–99, and are fairly robustly supported. The measure of political polarization outperforms alternative measures of this concept.

Social Networks Analysis in Accounting and Finance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro A. Bianchi ◽  
Monika Causholli ◽  
Miguel Minutti-Meza ◽  
Raul Villamil-Otero
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Networks Analysis ◽  
Networks Analysis

Semantic Social Networks Analysis

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Thovex ◽  
Bénédicte LeGrand ◽  
Ofelia Cervantes ◽  
J. Alfredo Sánchez ◽  
Francky Trichet
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Networks Analysis ◽  
Networks Analysis
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