Detecting Disruption: Identifying Structural Changes in the Verkhovna Rada (original) (raw)

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We identify time periods of disruption in the voting patterns of the Ukrainian parliament for the last three convocations. We compare two methods: ideal point estimation (PolSci) and faction detection (CS). Both methods identify the revolution in Ukraine in 2014. The faction detection method also detects structural changes prior to the revolution (election of the president whose tenure was ended early by the revolution), while the ideal points method performs stronger after 2014, identifying a disruption around voting on constitutional changes to implement Minsk II agreements between separatists and Ukraine. The ideal point method is better at detecting position changes of the members of parliament, while the faction method is better at detecting changes in relationships between different MPs. The results suggest that after 2014, the Ukrainian parliament has become more consolidated, but the distribution of its political positions continues to evolve in response to changes in geo-political conditions.

This material is based upon work supported by the Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) under award number N00014-17-1-2675. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Naval Research. Additionally, Thomas Magelinski was supported by an ARCS foundation scholarship.

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  1. CASOS, Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15217, USA
    Thomas Magelinski & Kathleen M. Carley
  2. Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15217, USA
    Jialin Hou & Tymofiy Mylovanov

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  1. Thomas Magelinski
  2. Jialin Hou
  3. Tymofiy Mylovanov
  4. Kathleen M. Carley

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  1. United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, USA
    Robert Thomson
  2. University of Michigan–Flint, Flint, MI, USA
    Halil Bisgin
  3. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
    Christopher Dancy
  4. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
    Ayaz Hyder

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Magelinski, T., Hou, J., Mylovanov, T., Carley, K.M. (2019). Detecting Disruption: Identifying Structural Changes in the Verkhovna Rada. In: Thomson, R., Bisgin, H., Dancy, C., Hyder, A. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21741-9\_20

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