David Knoke and Song Yang′ s Social Network Analysis, Third Edition provides a concise
introduction to the concepts and tools of social network analysis. The authors convey key …

Este artigo analisa as relações de poder político-empresarial constituídas no processo de
financiamento eleitoral, em 2014, no Brasil. O estudo das redes de investimentos revela que …

Popular accounts of presidential nomination politics in the United States focus on factions,
lanes, or even a civil war within the party. This Element uses data on party leader …

Since 2010, independent expenditures have grown as a source of spending in American
elections. A large and growing portion comes from “dark money” groups—political nonprofits …

The parties as networks approach has become a critical component of understanding
American political parties. Research on it has so far mainly focused on variation in the …

In 2018, after more than 20 years of political polarization between large traditional parties,
Brazil elected as president a far-right populist, Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain who …

Observers have noted that the Republican and Democratic primaries differ substantially,
with Republicans typically having an easier time selecting their nominee. Previous research …

Summary The European Union is one of the international actors covering a prominent role in
the everevolving and pressing domain of election observation, located in the broader …

Some of the most important, and least understood, actors in the pre-primary stages of the
presidential nomination process are campaign donors (Adkins and Dowdle 2002; …

After the reforms of the presidential nomination system that took place in the 1970s, the
political parties developed a set of informal norms that restored a great deal of their …