A model for investigating the Iraqi politics during the elections

Abstract EN

The Iraqi political arena has witnessed a dramatic change after the year of 2003.

it moved from the dominated republican system to a democratic system.

this movement in the political system has affected the situation in Iraq in terms of economic, education, industrial, trading, to mention a few.

this paper analyses the Iraqi parliament representatives’ affiliations in terms of their coalitions they formed in the elections.

moreover, this study tries enabling us to deeply understand how the Iraqi parliament representatives are connected to each other and the relations among them.

it also provides us with information on how different provinces adopted different coalitions regardless their religion and other tendencies.

several political networks were generated and visualized based on the concepts of complex networks.

each network represents a particular political aspect of the current Iraqi parliament.

this study also reveals a new trend of forming coalitions in Iraq and the strategy followed by the representatives in attaching to coalitions.

finally, we believe this is the first kind of work that uses this approach of analysis in understanding the trend of Iraqi politicians.