Networks of Influence · Chapter 4 Findings

Cross-State Textual Similarity in Post-Dobbs Reproductive Policy

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Distance means similarity. Nodes pulled close together share the most legislative text. The Nevada–Washington pair (similarity = 0.807) will sit essentially on top of each other.

Edge thickness scales with similarity score.

Node size scales with cross-state novelty — bigger nodes are more textually distinct from the corpus average.

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