This data is based on 26 elites who sat on the boards of directors for at least two of six economic policy making organizations (Domhoff 2016), and also made campaign contributions to one or more of six candidates running in the primary election contests for the 2008 Presidential nominations of the Republican Party (Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney) or the Democratic Party (Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, Barack Obama).
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Matrix with 26 rows and 6+6 columns
Domhoff, G William. 2016. <U+201C>Who Rules America? Power Elite Database.<U+201D>
The Center for Responsive Politics. 2019. <U+201C>OpenSecrets.<U+201D>
Knoke, David, Mario Diani, James Hollway, and Dimitris C Christopoulos. 2021. Multimodal Political Networks. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press.