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Political Networks

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Synonyms

Policy networks

Glossary

E-Participation :

The process by which public concerns, needs, and values are incorporated into governmental and corporate decision making

Politics 2.0 :

The harnessing of the Internet’s lowered transaction costs and its condition of information abundance, toward the goal of building more participatory, interactive political institutions

Slacktivists :

Engaging of people in feel-good forms of political participation that have little or no impact on effecting change

Social Media Analytics :

Its primary goal is to develop and evaluate scientific methods as well as technical frameworks and software tools for tracking, modeling, analyzing, and mining large-scale social media data for various purposes.

Definition

Political networks are social aggregations where citizens and politicians are connected and share and discuss ideas on political processes.

Introduction

In democratic countries, political parties feel responsible to participate in public political...

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Stefan Stieglitz

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Stieglitz, S. (2014). Political Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_86

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