Empirical analysis of the Portuguese governments s

Authors: Nuno Moniz Francisco Louçã Márcia Oliveira Renato Soeiro

Publish Date: 2016/06/28

Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-

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Abstract

The Portuguese governmental network comprising all the 776 ministers and junior ministers who were part of the 19 governments between the year 1976 and 2013 is presented and analyzed The data contain information on connections concerning business and other types of organizations and to our knowledge there is no such extensive research in previous literature Upon the presentation of the data a social network analysis considering the temporal dimension is performed at three levels of granularity networklevel subnetworklevel political groups and nodelevel A discussion based on the results is presented We conclude that although it fits two of the four preconditions of a smallworld model the Portuguese governmental network is not a smallworld network although presenting an evolution pointing toward becoming one Also we use a resilience test to study the evolution of the robustness of the Portuguese governmental network pinpointing the moment when a set of members became structurally importantThe authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers João Teixeira Lopes Jorge Costa and Adriano Campos for their comments and reviews Nuno Moniz gratefully acknowledges funding from FCT Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology through a PhD Grant SFRH/BD/90180/2012 Renato Soeiro gratefully acknowledges funding from FCT through a PhD Grant SFRH/BD/88742/2012 Márcia Oliveira gratefully acknowledges funding from FCT through a PhD Grant SFRH/BD/81339/2011 Nuno Moniz Renato Soeiro and Márcia Oliveira acknowledge financial support by the ERDF – European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation  COMPETE 2020 Programme within project «POCI010145FEDER006961» and by National Funds through the FCT as part of project  UID/EEA/50014/2013 Francisco Louçã acknowledges financial support by FCT as part of the strategic project PEstOE/EGE/UI0436/2014

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