Reports Shailagh Murray in the Washington Post: “In Congress, being well connected doesn’t necessarily mean being well positioned. At least that’s a conclusion to be drawn from a new study of legislators’ working relationships by a political science professor at the University of California at Davis. James H. Fowler examined ‘the cosponsorship network of all 280,000 pieces of legislation proposed in the U.S. House and Senate from 1973 to 2004,’ according to his paper, ‘Who is the Best Connected Congressperson?’ He noted each item’s chief sponsor and co-sponsors, as well as ‘network measures of closeness, betweenness and eigenvector centrality.’ He … Continue reading Ron Paul Is Well Connected