Mediation Centrality in Adversarial Policy Networks

Figure 1

An example of a bipartite adversarial policy network around the issue of speeding up naturalization of foreigners in Switzerland (based on empirical results of a study described later in the paper). (a) The bipartite network composed of persons and the reasons they acknowledge. (b) Projections of the bipartite network onto persons, where individuals are connected if they share at least one reason, or onto reasons, where reasons are connected if they are both produced by the same person. Blue indicates reasons or persons favoring reduced naturalization times and red indicates reasons or persons against reduced naturalization times. (c) The person projections based on bipartite networks constrained to only contain either pro or con reasons. Blue indicates persons favoring reduced naturalization times and red indicates persons against reduced naturalization times; persons’ attitudes towards the policy issue were assessed using a separate survey item.