The Political Complexity of Regional Electricity Policy Formation

Table 8

Comparison between the PJM voting network and synthetic networks.

	PJM voting network	Erdὄs-Rényi	Small world			Preferential attachment
			p = 0.2	p = 0.3	p = 0.5
Number of nodes	147	147	147	147	147	147
Number of links	4381	4380	4116	4116	4116	4290
Average degree	59.67	59.59	56	56	56	58.37
Range of degrees	[, 144]	[, 72]	[, 70]	[, 69]	[, 68]	[, 99]
Range of betweenness centrality	[, 0.06157]	[.00258, 0.00595]	[.00226, 0.00667]	[.00224, 0.00633]	[.00231, 0.00653]	[.00067, 0.01134]
Power-law exponent	3.205	8.637	8.285	8.127	8.038	2.93
KS t-test result	0	0.011	0	0	0	0