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Replication Data for: Policy Networks Across Political Systems

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Title Replication Data for: Policy Networks Across Political Systems
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NKCDCO
 
Creator Metz, Florence
Brandenberger, Laurence
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Polities shape power structures and interaction patterns between actors in policymaking processes. Although the social fabric of interactions is key to successful policymaking, it remains unclear which relational structures are typically found across political systems. By adopting a network approach, we analyze differences in power structures and interac- tion patterns across four policy networks in German and Swiss consensual-federal, French majoritarian-unitary, and hybrid Dutch consensual-unitary democracies. Using survey data from 149 state and non-state actors, we fit exponential random graph models and calcu- late predicted probabilities to compare the four networks. Results show that the consen- sus democracies institutionalize neighborhoods of networks where actors share power and collaborate with opponents. Our case of a majoritarian democracy illustrates power con- centration with restricted access to competitors, limiting the need to interact and search for compromises with opponents. Findings allow future work to differentiate typical from atypical network structures, given the embeddedness into a political system.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Political networks
Political systems
Comparative politics
Inferential network analysis
 
Contributor Brandenberger, Laurence