Mario Levorato ; Yuri Frota - Brazilian Congress structural balance analysis

jimis:2018 - Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Sciences, March 10, 2017, Vol. 2 - Graphs and social systems - https://doi.org/10.18713/JIMIS-280217-2-3
Brazilian Congress structural balance analysisArticle

Authors: Mario Levorato ; Yuri Frota

    In this work, we study the behavior of Brazilian politicians and political parties with the help of clustering algorithms for signed social networks. For this purpose, we extract and analyze a collection of signed networks representing voting sessions of the lower house of Brazilian National Congress. We process all available voting data for the period between 2011 and 2016, by considering voting similarities between members of the Congress to define weighted signed links. The solutions obtained by solving Correlation Clustering (CC) problems are the basis for investigating deputies voting networks as well as questions about loyalty, leadership, coalitions, political crisis and polarization.


    Volume: Vol. 2 - Graphs and social systems
    Section: Subject Area 3: Graphs and Networks
    Published on: March 10, 2017
    Accepted on: February 8, 2017
    Submitted on: March 10, 2017
    Keywords: Signed Graph,Structural Balance,Correlation Clustering,Metaheuristic,Politics,Social Network,[INFO.INFO-SI]Computer Science [cs]/Social and Information Networks [cs.SI]

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