Community structure in the United Nations General Assembly

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 391, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 343-361

  MacOn, Kevin T ^a,b   Mucha, Peter J ^a,c   Porter, Mason A ^d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community structure; Modularity; Networks; Political networks; Voting networks

Indexed keywords

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PHYSICS;

BIPARTITE NETWORK; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; GENERAL ASSEMBLY; MODULARITY; MULTIPLE RESOLUTIONS; NETWORK MODULARITY; NETWORK REPRESENTATION; VOTING RECORDS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 80054030243     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.06.030     Document Type: Article

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