Overview

The Political Networks Online Colloquium (PNOC) aims to bring together a community of scholars to provide feedback on ongoing research about political networks. Each month we will meet for one hour to discuss one paper, which will be assigned two discussants. To encourage audience participation, PNOC will have a read-ahead format with no presentation. If you are interested in attending, please sign up either for the entire semester (https://forms.gle/Lj1QEFygNETkfKoQ7) or for a particular session (links below). For questions, please contact PNOC coordinators, Marina Duque (duque.5@osu.edu) and Matthew Simonson (msimonso@sas.upenn.edu).

Dates

• March 30, 12pm EDT: "Competition over Constituency and Territory: A Network Analysis of Militant Group Cooperation and Infighting."

  • Author: Ilayda B. Onder (Penn State University)

  • Discussants: Margaret Foster (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) and Elizabeth Menninga (University of Iowa)

  • Click here for abstract and register here for paper and link

• April 18, 12pm EDT: "What Makes a Leader? A Role Analysis of Latent Policy Diffusion Networks"

  • Authors: Scott LaCombe (Smith College) and Tracee Saunders (University of Iowa) 

  • Discussants: Bruce Desmarais (Penn State University) and Joshua Jansa (Oklahoma State University)

  • Registration link: https://forms.gle/wgG2fDiQMb1gE3An8

• May 10, 12pm EDT: "Elite Family Networks and the 1891 Civil War in Chile"

  • Author: John Londregan (Princeton University)

  • Discussants: Justin Gross (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) and Naoki Egami (Columbia University)

  • Registration link: https://forms.gle/LPAkg5ivXsgBhCES6

• May 23, 12pm EDT: "Using Network Theory as an Alternative Approach to Better Understand and Evaluate Interview Samples"

  • Author: Josef Woldense (University of Minnesota)

  • Discussants: Jennifer Larson (Vanderbilt University) and Janet Lewis (George Washington University)

  • Registration link: https://forms.gle/gofXoUJSktVPREbg6

• June 13, 12pm EDT: "Who Follows Whom on Twitter? An Analysis of Homophily Patterns"

  • Author: Alexi Quintana Mathé (Northeastern University)

  • Discussants: Pablo Barberá (University of Southern California) and Lauren Ratliff Santoro (University of Texas—Dallas)

  • Registration Link: https://forms.gle/g8ovkYxY1Xb8m5mn9

• July 3, 12pm EDT: "Network of Telegram Channels"

  • Author: Daria Kuznetsova (University of Iowa)

  • Discussants: Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (University of California—Los Angeles) and Mónika Simon (University of Amsterdam)

  • Registration Link: https://forms.gle/6kzRnc6wJpYTRGCP8