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New AJPS article on policy networks
The political system affects how policy actors collaborate with each other. The article compares policy networks of actors engaged in water protection from four different countries and quantitatively compares the structure of the collaborations.
Feb 21, 2022-
Success in Science - Special Issue
Out now - Special issue on "Succes in Science"
Dec 7, 2021-
The downside of heterogeneity
We link lock-ins in task-assignment networks and resilience in social systems.
Nov 24, 2021-
Amtliches Bulletin: records of speeches, propositions and votes -- Part 2
We go into detail on which text elements we extract form the Amtliches Bulletin from 1891 until 1995.
Sep 20, 2021-
Sociophysics
What is the physics in sociophysics? Two new publications explore the relation ...
Jul 15, 2021-
How we do it
Frank Schweitzer on the challenges of interdisciplinary research ...
Jul 11, 2021-
Amtliches Bulletin: records of speeches, propositions and votes -- Part 1
We introduce our second main source of data for the DemocraSci project: The proceedings of the Swiss Parliament, commonly referred to as the Amtliches Bulletin.
Jul 9, 2021-
Soziophysik
Was können wir wissen? Was sollen wir tun? Was dürfen wir hoffen? Eröffnungsvortrag ...
Jun 9, 2021-
Are offline political relations established with online interactions?
A study of the validity of online political behavior to proxy offline relations.
May 31, 2021-
Systems Design Bottom Up
Two short texts for the general audience explain it ...
May 21, 2021-
