ARNOLD, Laura W <br/><br/>
Friendship and votes :  the impact of interpersonal ties on legislative decision making 

 -  2000 
<br/><br/> Social scientists have explored friendship netwroks in many contexts and find that social networks affect behavior. The authors extend this line of inquiry to the Ohio House of Representatives. Through interviews with house members, the authors identify the pairs fo legislators, or dyads, who choose each other friends. To test the impact of friendship on behavior, roll calls from the 120 th Gerneral Assembly (1993-1994) were gathered, and dyadic agreemtn scores were constructed. Affective bonds appear to influence voting agreement, even when other factors (such as race, gender, shared party, and shard leadership) are taken into consideration