mpn_senate combines the two community networks of the 112th Congress into one multilevel network of 93 senators, 78 political action committees (PACs), and 25 key bills. The mode node attribute separates the three sets of nodes.

mpn_senate_dem and mpn_senate_rep are not party networks. The source files are named Fig8.1_SxPV_CommA, Fig8.2_SxPV_CommB, and Fig8.3_SxPV_Overlap, so they record two communities of one network and their intersection. The community node attribute holds "A", "B", or "both". The 20 senators and 32 PACs and bills marked "both" reproduce mpn_senate_over.

data(mpn_senate)

Format

#> -- # Senate contribution and voting network ------------------------------------
#> # A labelled, undirected network of 196 senators and 5861 contribution and vote
#> ties
#>
#> -- Nodes
#> # A tibble: 196 x 3
#>   label      mode     community
#>   <chr>      <chr>    <chr>
#> 1 Baucus     senators both
#> 2 Begich     senators A
#> 3 Bennet     senators A
#> 4 Blumenthal senators A
#> 5 Boxer      senators A
#> 6 BrownSh    senators A
#> # i 190 more rows
#>
#> -- Missings
#> # A tibble: 2,542 x 3
#>    from    to weight
#>   <int> <int>  <dbl>
#> 1    52    94     NA
#> 2    53    94     NA
#> 3    54    94     NA
#> 4    55    94     NA
#> 5    56    94     NA
#> 6    57    94     NA
#> # i 2,536 more rows
#>
#> -- Ties
#> # A tibble: 5,861 x 2
#>    from    to
#>   <int> <int>
#> 1     1    94
#> 2     2    94
#> 3     3    94
#> 4     4    94
#> 5     5    94
#> 6     6    94
#> # i 5,855 more rows
#>

Details

Two points of care.

Cells that neither community covers were never observed. They are recorded as missing rather than as absent ties, so the object holds 2542 missing dyads.

The two communities overlap in 640 cells and disagree in 9 of them. Community A governs those cells: it agrees with Fig8.3_SxPV_Overlap in all 640, where community B differs in 9.

References

Knoke, David, Mario Diani, James Hollway, and Dimitris C Christopoulos. 2021. Multimodal Political Networks. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press.