Political scientists are finally starting to get interested in political networks – one nice example is the initial work that Dan Katz and Michael Bommarito are doing on how campaign contributions can be visualized as networks at computational legal studies. They have three recent posts, one mapping contributions to senators from individual institutions with TARP recipients highlighted, another looking at contributions by economic sector, and a third discussing whether the USG should provide interfaces to visualize large N datasets on topics of political interest. More data is forthcoming shortly. It would be nice to see some serious grant money go to support this kind of work …
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