Intersections of Political and Economic Relations: A Network Study

In this paper we analyze a special subset of the Hungarian aHáló network database, one that contains different economic, political and personal relations in a form of a single network. We narrowed down the original dataset to specific types of economic, political and personal relations. The sampled network has small-world, scale-free and non-transitive properties. Our hypothesis was that many actors (i.e. nodes in the network) share different types of economic and political relationships. This hypothesis is not confirmed in the study, as we only found a low number of node-pairs that share a given type of economic link and some type of political link at a time.