Network Science Meets Political Science

Friday, February 15, 2013
Ballroom A (Hynes Convention Center)
David Lazer , Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Politics is, in part, an intrinsically relational phenomenon.  The central construct of politics is power-but power is not an attribute, it's a relationship, where person A can influence person B, group X has power over group Y, and so on.  In part because of the rise of network science, political science has devoted increasing attention to the network dimension of politics, and this talk will examine the contributions of this emerging synthesis.