The Senate Campaign Contribution Network: A Visualization Repost in Light of the Court’s Decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Today’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has justifiably generated a significant amount of media / blogosphere coverage. For those not familiar with the Court’s decision, there is a full roundup of analysis available at SCOTUS Blog and Election Law Blog. In light of today’s decision we decided to repost highlights of our visualization of the campaign contribution network for the Senators of the 110th Congress. For those interested, the original post is offered here and the documentation is here. Also, there are variety of other related posts related to the 110th Congress available under this tag. Suffice to say, in light of today’s decision, there is likely to be some significant changes to the contribution network of the 111th Congress (Second Session) ….
Related posts:
- Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to Senators in the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION [Repost from 3/26])
- Visualizing Campaign Contributions of the 110th Congress: Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd and the TARP Banks
- Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to Senators in the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION (The Image)
- Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to Senators in the 110th Congress — The TARP EDITION (Documentation for the Network)
- The Development of Structure in the Citation Network of the United States Supreme Court — Now in HD!
