A discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage of the “sugar tax” debate before and after the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy

Table 2 Network measures for the two main coalitions

Network measure	Full network	Supportive cluster	Sceptical cluster
Size (number of nodes)	176	95	65
Centralisation	29.8%	39.7%	36.9%
Density	0.13	0.29	0.24
Total external ratio		0.05	0.12

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