I've stumbled across a good looking site: muckety.com.
It claims to detail the relationships that connect the various players and institutions in contemporary government and politics. For an example, here are the relationships established when presidential daughter Jenna married Henry Hager. This wasn't a random hookup.
Social network analysis has been a growth field in a variety of academic subjects in recent years. Recent studies have also suggested that any impact a government class, or education in general, is likely to have on individual behavior has less to do with what one learns than with who one meets.