Legislative Networks

Ringe, Nils; Victor, Jennifer Nicoll; Cho, Wendy Tam

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“…In legal network analysis, inspired by the seminal work of [22], scholars have studied both information networks, such as judicial citation networks [19,20,[23][24][25][26] or legislation networks [14,16,27,28], and social networks, such as legislative collaboration networks [29][30][31] or judicial collaboration networks [32]. While most investigations have focused on individual countries [33][34][35][36], others have compared several countries [37,38], or studied networks at the European level [39][40][41][42] or the international level [43][44][45][46].…”

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Legal hypergraphs

Coupette,

Hartung,

Katz

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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Complexity science provides a powerful framework for understanding physical, biological and social systems, and network analysis is one of its principal tools. Since many complex systems exhibit multilateral interactions that change over time, in recent years, network scientists have become increasingly interested in modelling and measuring dynamic networks featuring higher-order relations . At the same time, while network analysis has been more widely adopted to investigate the structure and evolution of law as a complex system, the utility of dynamic higher-order networks in the legal domain has remained largely unexplored. Setting out to change this, we introduce temporal hypergraphs as a powerful tool for studying legal network data. Temporal hypergraphs generalize static graphs by (i) allowing any number of nodes to participate in an edge and (ii) permitting nodes or edges to be added, modified or deleted. We describe models and methods to explore legal hypergraphs that evolve over time and elucidate their benefits through case studies on legal citation and collaboration networks that change over a period of more than 70 years. Our work demonstrates the potential of dynamic higher-order networks for studying complex legal systems, and it facilitates further advances in legal network analysis. This article is part of the theme issue ‘A complexity science approach to law and governance’.

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Section: (B) Related Workmentioning

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Legal hypergraphs

Coupette,

Hartung,

Katz

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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“…Since, Tullock (1972) famously asked why there is so little money in US politics given small observed 5 This review is necessarily selective. Comprehensive discussions of the prior literature can be found in Heaney and Strickland (2016), Patty and Penn (2016), Ringe et al (2016).…”

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Power and the Money, Money and the Power: A Network Analysis of Donations from American Corporate to Political Leaders

Rockey

Zakir

2021

SSRN Journal

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American corporate and political elites are connected by the donations that the latter receive from the former. Using a novel dataset, this paper analyzes these connections as a social network. This analysis uncovers the changing structure of this network, and thus of the changing nature of money in US politics. In particular, beyond the well understood increase in the scale of donations, we document how donation patterns have become more polarized and more concentrated. We show that the determinants of this network's structure have remained broadly constant over time. Donors associated with the same firm or industry are substantially more likely to donate to the same candidates in all the elections we study. Likewise, politicians serving on the same congressional committees have been consistently more likely to receive campaign funds from the same donors. Yet, there has been a transformation in the concentration of donations on a small number of donors and recipients connected with a small number of committees and a small number of industries. This concentration is reflected in substantial increases in the power (centrality) of the most important donors and politicians.

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“…To visualize interstate coalitions, I use diagrams of co‐voting networks. Political scientists have used co‐voting networks to illustrate political polarization in US congress (Andris et al, 2015), to identify influential legislators in European Parliament (Ringe and Wilson, 2016), among other applications (Ringe et al, 2016). In the network diagrams in this paper, nodes are states.…”

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‘Most Potent and Irresistible Moral Influence’: Public Opinion, Rhetorical Coercion, and the Hague Conferences

MacDonald

2020

Global Policy

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International relations scholars debate whether the current liberal order can adapt to power shifts among the great powers. Yet historically, contestation among the great powers has often revolved around the question of whether the international system should be organized along liberal and institutional lines in the first place. In this paper, I examine great power negotiation strategies at the 1899 and 1907 Hague conferences, an often overlooked yet critical episode of liberal order-building. As rising powers shuffled the great power ranks, many hoped that the Hague conferences would prevent arms racing, reduce the barbarity of war, and promote peaceful solutions to international crises. Champions of liberal rules and institutions used principled persuasion, appealing to shared norms and collective identities. They also engaged in rhetorical coercion, seeking at times to shame potential obstructionists. Yet the conferences revealed the profound limitations of these soft-power based negotiation strategies. For a brief moment in 1899, circumstances allowed champions of the Hague system to persuade states to sign on to the laws of war and to embarrass states into accepting arbitration. Yet by 1907, conditions had changed and obstructionists were able to mobilize broad coalitions to block significant change. The Hague conferences highlight the importance of interstate coalitional networks in institutional adaptation. Policy Implications • States seeking institutional adaptation should use principled persuasion when preferences are relatively aligned and there is a strong normative consensus in favor of reform. • States seeking institutional adaptation should use rhetorical coercion when they are not acting in an obviously hypocritical manner and the target has clearly violated a widely shared normative principle.

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Legislative Networks

Cited by 8 publications

References 57 publications

Legal hypergraphs

Legal hypergraphs

Power and the Money, Money and the Power: A Network Analysis of Donations from American Corporate to Political Leaders

‘Most Potent and Irresistible Moral Influence’: Public Opinion, Rhetorical Coercion, and the Hague Conferences

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