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11. Analyses of Elite Networks

Author : Franziska Barbara Keller

Published in: The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Social network analysis (SNA) provides important tools and methods for researchers of political elites on four issues: elite interactions, identifying elite groups and their social structure, measuring elite power, and defining elites. Researchers can examine different factors influencing interactions among elites while properly accounting for the interdependent nature of such data using exponential random graph models (ERGMs) and stochastic actor-based models (SOAMs). Visualizations and community-finding algorithms allow the detection of groups, core members, cleavages, and polarization/fractionalization in this interaction network. Powerful elites can be identified through centrality measures, which also help distinguish between different types of influence. SNA research on nomination networks and on sampling in networks, particularly on more principled snowball-sampling methods, could help expose biases in the way researchers determine whom to include in their study.

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Title: Analyses of Elite Networks
Author: Franziska Barbara Keller
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book: The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-51903-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-51904-7

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51904-7_11