Emerging structure in the network of Bill co-authorships in the Philippine House of Representatives

Authors

Mary Jacqueline N. Sombillo ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
Marisciel Litong-Palima ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
Caesar Saloma ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

Network analysis has been proven useful in terms of understanding underlying behaviors within networks. In this paper, the network structure of bill authorships and cosponsorships in the 13^th Congress of the Philippine House of Representatives was analyzed. It was found that the network exhibited high clustering, with a clustering coefficient of 0.96, but short characteristic path length with a value of 1.02 between nodes. It was also observed that the number of papers per author has a central tendency and the number of authors per bill decreases with a power law exponent of 8.0E−5. The emerging structure of the network in terms of clustering and connectedness may be attributed to the existence of hubs in the coauthorship network. These hubs were found to be a consequence of the dependence of the node connections with the role each node portrays in the network.

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Issue

2006: Proceedings of the 24th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas National Physics Congress

Article ID

SPP-2006-PA-39

Section

Poster Session PA

Published

2006-10-25

How to Cite

[1]

MJN Sombillo, M Litong-Palima, and C Saloma, Emerging structure in the network of Bill co-authorships in the Philippine House of Representatives, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 24, SPP-2006-PA-39 (2006). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2006-PA-39.