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 interesting attending, we ask that you sign up here so that we can share the author's draft with you ahead of time. For questions, please contact PNOC coordinators, Marina Duque (marina.duque@fsu.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)

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

• 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) and Joshua Jansa (Oklahoma State)

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

  • Author: John Londregan (Princeton)

  • Discussants: Justin Gross (UMass–Amherst) and Naoki Egami (Columbia)

• 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) and Janet Lewis (George Washington University)

• June (date TBD): "Who Follows Whom on Twitter? An Analysis of Homophily Patterns"

  • Author: Alexi Quintana Mathé (Northeastern)

  • Discussants: TBD

• July (date TBD): "Network of Telegram Channels"

  • Author: Daria Kuznetsova (University of Iowa)

  • Discussants: TBD