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Stephen Kosack^1,2,3, Michele Coscia^3,4, Evann Smith¹

¹Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.

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Area of Science:

Political Science
Network Science
Computational Social Science

Background:

Modern governments perform complex functions impacting society and the environment.
Understanding government structure and variation is a longstanding question in political science.
Existing methods for analyzing government structure are limited.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and apply a novel method for mapping government structures using their online presence.
To analyze the diversity in functional scale and structure among 50 US state governments.
To identify factors influencing variations in state government organization.

Main Methods:

Utilized network science methods to analyze the internet footprint of government.
Collected and analyzed 32.5 million webpages and 110 million hyperlinks from 47,631 US state agencies.
Verified the online footprint reflects known hierarchical structures and scaling with population.

Main Results:

US state governments exhibit hierarchical organization, scaling with population, and specialization by function.
Significant diversity exists in state government functional hierarchies.
State economic structures were the strongest predictor of government structure, followed by location and income.
Voter ideology did not significantly correlate with observed government structures.

Conclusions:

The internet footprint provides a comprehensive and scalable method for studying government structure.
State government organization is primarily driven by economic factors rather than recent voter ideology.
This approach offers new insights into the functional diversity and structural underpinnings of state governments.