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This book examines almost two decades of research using the structural or network approach to political behaviour. Network analysis begins with the assumption that the most important elements of political power are the relationships of influence and domination among social actors.

For decades, expert bureaucrats have been moving regularly across borders, from their home institutions to international organizations, and forging collaborative networks with peers. Analyzing over twenty years of environmental and nuclear technology projects data for 150 countries, this book provides a comprehensive study of international cooperation among elite bureaucrats in developing states. An empirical study that will interest researchers, undergraduate, and graduate students of political and social sciences, this is the first book to explain the causes of transnational cooperation in the Global South and find a link between domestic level of skills and international cooperation. The author methodically illustrates how state experts with high skills can reap the benefits of international technical cooperation. In contrast, bureaucrats with low skills cannot forge stable collaborative ties with foreign peers and gain little from participating in these transgovernmental networks.

Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses on relationships among social entities and is an important addition to standard social and behavioral research, which is primarily concerned with attributes of the social units. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications reviews and discusses methods for the analysis of social networks with a focus on applications of these methods to many substantive examples. It is a reference book that can be used by those who want a comprehensive review of network methods, or by researchers who have gathered network data and want to find the most appropriate method by which to analyze it. It is also intended for use as a textbook as it is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the methodology and applications of the field.

The economies of South Korea and Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century are to scholars of economic development what the economy of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries is to economic historians. This book, first published in 2006, is a collaboration between a leading trade economist and a leading economic sociologist specializing in East Asia, and offers an explanation of the development paths of post-World War II Korea and Taiwan. The ambitions of the authors go beyond this, however. They use these cases to reshape the way economists, sociologists, and political scientists will think about economic organization in the future. They offer nothing less than a theory of, and extended evidence for, how capitalist economies become organized. One of the principal empirical findings is that a primary cause for the industrialization of East Asia is the retail revolution in the United States and the demand-responsiveness of Asian manufacturers.

Like many organizations and social movements, the Third Republic French labour movement exhibited a marked tendency to schism into competing sectarian organizations. During the roughly 50-year period from the fall of the Paris Commune to the creation of the powerful French Communist Party, the French labour movement shifted from schism to broad-based solidarity and back to schism. In this 2001 book, Ansell analyses the dynamic interplay between political mobilization, organization-building, and ideological articulation that produced these shifts between schism and solidarity. The aim is not only to shed light on the evolution of the Third Republic French labour movement, but also to develop a more generic understanding of schism and solidarity in organizations and social movements. To develop this broader understanding, the book builds on insights drawn from sociological analyses of Protestant sects and anthropological studies of segmentary societies, as well as from organization and social movement theory.

Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender inequality within economic, sociological, and legal organizations. The book argues that male-female earnings differentials cannot be explained adequately by market forces, principles of efficiency, or society-wide sexism. Rather it suggests that employing organizations tend to disadvantage holders of predominantly female jobs by denying them power in organizational politics and by reproducing male cultural advantages. These findings contradict major legal precedents which have argued that labor markets and not employers are the source of inequality. The authors further argue that comparable worth is an inappropriate remedy, as such an approach misdiagnoses the causes of gender inequality and often falls prey to the same organizational processes that initially generated this differential. The book argues that the courts have, by uncritically accepting the market explanation for male-female wage disparity, tended to legitimate and to legalize a crucial dimension of gender inequality in American society.

Placing Friendship in Context is a unique collection bridging social psychological and social structural research to advance understanding of this important subject. Leading researchers explore the social and historical contexts in which friendships and other similar informal ties develop and how these shape the form and substance the relationships assume.

Social scientists have long been aware that social networks play a key role in the belief and practices of people of faith. This book illustrates how researchers can draw on formal social network analysis methods to explore the interplay of social networks and religion.

Social scientists have long been aware that social networks play a key role in the belief and practices of people of faith. This book illustrates how researchers can draw on formal social network analysis methods to explore the interplay of social networks and religion.

Since the revolution of 1979, scholars have portrayed the Islamic State's industrial development capacity in a negative light. This book shows how Iran was able to overcome this negative portrayal by constructing local and global networks to create the capacity to build an industry with high local manufacturing content.

Clandestine groups and networks are fundamentally different than transparent organizations. Consequently, we need new and different tools to understand terror groups, criminal networks, and other violent non-state actors (VNSAs). Illuminating Dark Networks explores the state of the art in methods to study dark networks.

Provides an account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of exponential random graph models (ERGMs), as well as a compendium of ERGM methods and illustrative applications. The reader is given sufficient detail to specify ERGMs, fit them to data with any of the available software packages and interpret the results.

Provides an account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of exponential random graph models (ERGMs), as well as a compendium of ERGM methods and illustrative applications. The reader is given sufficient detail to specify ERGMs, fit them to data with any of the available software packages and interpret the results.

Placing Friendship in Context is a unique collection bridging social psychological and social structural research to advance understanding of this important subject. Leading researchers explore the social and historical contexts in which friendships and other similar informal ties develop and how these shape the form and substance the relationships assume.

This volume demonstrates the potential of mixed-methods designs for researching social networks and the utilization of social networks for other research. Mixing methods applies to the combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. In social network research, mixing methods also applies to the combination of structural and actor-oriented approaches.

This volume demonstrates the potential of mixed-methods designs for researching social networks and the utilization of social networks for other research. Mixing methods applies to the combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. In social network research, mixing methods also applies to the combination of structural and actor-oriented approaches.

This collection of original essays intends to revitalize the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. Studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent are combined with investigations of the flow of material resources.

In this book, nine scholars representing various perspectives examine institutions that govern economic activity in the United States and the dramatic changes they have undergone since the late nineteenth century. They investigate how and why these changes occurred and continue to occur as markets become more volatile, technology changes and international competition becomes more intense.

This collection of original essays intends to revitalize the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. Studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent are combined with investigations of the flow of material resources.

The volume as a whole will demonstrate to a broader public the significance and value of a structural approach to business studies, and will appeal to sociologists, organization theorists, business scholars, economists, political scientists, and business historians.

In this book, nine scholars representing various perspectives examine institutions that govern economic activity in the United States and the dramatic changes they have undergone since the late nineteenth century. They investigate how and why these changes occurred and continue to occur as markets become more volatile, technology changes and international competition becomes more intense.

Guanxi (social networks) is among the most important and studied phenomena in China. In this volume, the editors bring together many of the top scholars of guanxi to present a dynamic view of the role of social networks in Chinese society.

This book provides an integrated treatment of blockmodeling, the most frequently used technique in social network analysis. The authors propose direct optimizational approaches to blockmodeling which yield blockmodels that best fit the network data. Generalizations and the deductive use of blockmodeling are proposed while substantive implications are explored.

Guanxi (social networks) is among the most important and studied phenomena in China. In this volume, the editors bring together many of the top scholars of guanxi to present a dynamic view of the role of social networks in Chinese society.

This book consists of review articles by leading methodologists, all commissioned exclusively for this volume. The book will complement the classic text by Wasserman and Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (also available from Cambridge University Press).

This book consists of review articles by leading methodologists, all commissioned exclusively for this volume. The book will complement the classic text by Wasserman and Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (also available from Cambridge University Press).