senate {grand}

US Senate Network

Description

A signed network representing US Senators' alliances and antagonisms, inferred from cosponsor() using backbone::sdsm() following the procedure described by Neal (2022). GRAND attributes have already been added using grand().

Usage

senate

Format

igraph object

References

Neal, Z. P. (2022). Constructing legislative networks in R using incidentally and backbone. Connections, 42, 1-9. doi: 10.2478/connections-2019.026