Complex networks applied to political analysis: Group voting behavior in the Brazilian congress.

ABSTRACT: The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies constitute the Brazilian Congress and are responsible for the Brazilian legislative management. Complex networks were shown to be a suitable tool to analyze this type of system. Several researches explored party dynamics in the Chamber of Deputies, however, no attention has been given to the Senate. Previous works that have stated the necessity of a backbone extraction methodology to be used in these types of networks also failed to define an automatic backbone extraction methodology to uncover group structure in legislative networks, reverting to heuristics or subjective approaches. In this work, we explore both legislative houses and compare them to see their differences and similarities. We also systematize an automatic backbone extraction methodol

SUBMITTER: Toledo Junior TJO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11996218 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature