Network Analysis and Political Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael D Ward (0000-0002-6561-6186, Duke University), Katherine Stovel (University of Washington), Audrey Sacks (University of Washington) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 245-264 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.040907.115949 |
| OpenAlex | W2147942759 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 113 |
| References cited | 106 |
Political science is fascinated with networks. This fascination builds on networks' descriptive appeal, and descriptions of networks play a prominent role in recent forays into network analysis. For some time, quantitative research has included node-level measures of network characteristics in standard regression models, thereby incorporating network concepts into familiar models. This approach represents an early advance for the literature but may (a) ignore fundamental theoretical contributions that can be found in a more structurally oriented network perspective, (b) focus attention on superficial aspects of networks as they feed into empirical work, and (c) present the network perspective as a slight tweak to standard models that assume complete independence of all relevant actors. We argue that network analysis is more than a tweak to the status quo ante; rather, it offers a means of addressing one of the holy grails of the social sciences: effectively analyzing the interdependence and flows of influence among individuals, groups, and institutions
Appeal · Complex network · Data science · Economics · Epistemology · Independence (probability theory · Network analysis · Network science · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social capital · Social network analysis · Social science · Sociology · Status quo · Computer Science · Law · Mathematics · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Social Capital and Networks · Social Media and Politics · Artificial Intelligence
Issue Networks
Networks in Public Administration
A Relational Theory of World Politics
World Society and the Global Foreign Aid Network
Mapping national and local political coalitions in Indonesia
Two centuries of Greek governments from a social network analysis perspective
Unpacking knowledge systems for collective action towards sustainability
Civilizzazione e funzione ancillare della forza
Delivering the UK Energy Transition with an Accountable and Competitive Electricity Sector
Media Storms and Policy Expertise
Handcuffing the hegemon
Michael D. Ward (1948–2021) and the road to space, networks and geography
Downstream centrality and industry lobbying in production networks
Caracterización del discurso de posesión presidencial e identificación de comunidades políticas en Colombia
Knowledge and networks
Dynamic network analysis of contact diaries
Who are in charge, who do i work with, and who are my friends
Power in politically charged networks
Networked Governance in Transnational Cooperation and Politics
Analyzing Social Policy from a Network Perspective
A Twitter-based approach of news media impartiality in multipartite political scenes
Donor interactions in the allocation of adaptation aid
Shared Challenges and Solutions
Who’s fuelling Twitter disinformation on the Covid-19 vaccination campaign? Evidence from a computational analysis of the green pass debate
Private and civil society governors of mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining
Rage against the fossil machine
Transitional Justice Networks and the Role of ‘local’ Actors in Cambodia
Local government performance and democratic consolidation
Treaty networks, nesting, and interstate cooperation
Structural dimensions of knowledge-action networks for sustainability
Exploring legislative collaboration behavior in Taiwan
Networks and illicit associations in corrupt exchanges
The globalised network of a dirty game
Moving Beyond Factions
Social Networks as a Political Resource
The interaction of international institutions from a social network perspective
Information flows and social capital through linkages
The Informal Dimension of Judicial Politics
Using Negotiation Sites for Richer Collection of Network Data
Network analysis
Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Insurgency
Social network analysis of conservation and one health governance in Madagascar
Event-focused network analysis
Public perceptions of using forests to fuel the European bioeconomy
Towards a territorial political capacity approach for studying European regions
Intersecting social-capital and perceived-efficacy perspectives to explain underperformance in community-based monitoring
Measuring Fairness, Inequality, and Big Data
The Battlefield and the Wire
Dense Networks, Ethnic Minorities, and Electoral Mobilization in Contemporary Russia
A different two-level game
Gatekeeper power
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance
Riding the Tide
Make Tweets Great Again
How Network Analysis Can Inform the Study of International Relations
Network analysis, education policy, and international development
Measuring attitudes as a complex system
Transnational Climate Governance Networks and Domestic Regulatory Action
Unequal partners? Networks, centrality, and aid to international education
Digital media consumption and voting among Central Asian youth
Historical and Comparative Research on Social Diffusion
Redes da política externa institucional brasileira
Social Density, Clientelism, and Community Benefits
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (Lats) dataset
Social Networks in Economic History
Causes and consequences of the Protestant Reformation
Social network analysis from the perspective of African political philosophy
Polarization of coalitions in an agent-based model of political discourse
Burocratas em ministérios
Do Disagreeable Political Discussion Networks Undermine Attitude Strength
Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis
A disconnected policy network
Adding sectors or strengthening ties? Adaptive strategies for cross-sector collaboration in disaster governance
Building connections
Decarbonization, hegemonic projects, and the green growth policy-planning network
Formal Authority, Persuasive Power, and Effectiveness in State Legislatures
Cooperation and polarization in a Presidential Congress
Scraping Public Co-Occurrences for Statistical Network Analysis of Political Elites
Sequential Decision Making and Information Aggregation in Small Networks
Mapping Political Communities
Modeling Asymmetric Relationships from Symmetric Networks
Text as Policy
Conceptualizing and measuring party-interest group relationships
Courts and informal networks
Networks of Cooperation
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis
A Critique of Dyadic Design
Social Power and the Politics of Reservations and Objections in Human Rights Treaties
Invisible Rulers
Cabinet Composition, Collegiality, and Collectivity
Party‐interest group ties
Civil society participation in global governance
The Case for Comparative Ethnography
The Micro Foundations of Policy Diffusion Toward Complex Global Governance
Research Frontiers in Comparative and International Environmental Politics
Ministerial Mandate Letters and Co-ordination in the Canadian Executive
Representation and Ministerial Influence on Cabinet Committees in Canada
Determining the Success of Economic Sanctions
Large-Scale Computerized Text Analysis in Political Science
Antigovernment Networks in Civil Conflicts
Networks of Collective Action
Getting a Job
Social Network Analysis
Estimation and Prediction for Stochastic Blockstructures
Diameter of the World-Wide Web
Modeling social networks from sampled data
Bilinear Mixed-Effects Models for Dyadic Data
Ergm
Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks
Latent Space Approaches to Social Network Analysis
Spatial Interaction and the Statistical Analysis of Lattice Systems
Logit Models and Logistic Regressions for Social Networks
Logit models and logistic regressions for social networks
Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data
Logit Models and Logistic Regressions for Social Networks
Inference in Curved Exponential Family Models for Networks
The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years
Computational Social Science
Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
Activists beyond Borders
Toward a structural theory of action
Toward a Structural Theory of Action
Advances in exponential random graph (p*) models
Group betweenness and co-betweenness
An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks
Social networks as normal science ∗
Contacts and influence
Advances in exponential random graph (p*) models applied to a large social network
Network Time Series from Archival Records
The power and politics of blogs
Statistics of Social Configurations
Structural equivalence of individuals in social networks
Change and Continuity in American Politics
Chains of Opportunity
Social Networks in Political Science
Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions
Social Structure from Multiple Networks. II. Role Structures
Some Problems of Inference from Chain Data
Social and Economic Networks
An Organizational Approach to State Policy Formation
Social Isolation in America
Social Networks and Citizen Response to Legal Change
Activists beyond borders
The modern world-system
Friends, Brokers, and Transitivity
The Coevolution of Networks and Political Attitudes
Inferential Network Analysis with Exponential Random Graph Models
Connecting the Congress
Policy Networks
Conflict and Cooperation in an Actors' Network of Chechnya Based on Event Data
Structural Equivalence and International Conflict
The Structuring of International Economic Relations
Networks of Intergovernmental Organizations and Convergence in Domestic Economic Policies
Network Analysis for International Relations
Political Participation and the Neighborhood Social Context
Disputes, Democracies, and Dependencies
Partisan Webs
Interdependence, Density Dependence, and Networks in Politics
Causality in Political Networks
The Social Utility of Informal Institutions
Connected Coordination
The Statistical Evaluation of Social Network Dynamics
Sampling and Estimation in Hidden Populations Using Respondent-Driven Sampling
New Specifications for Exponential Random Graph Models
Networks in Political Science
Social Networks in Comparative Perspective
Endogenizing Corporate Identities
The Sociometry Reader
Bringing Strong Ties Back in
Modeling the Size of Wars
Through Thick and Thin
Unnecessary Roughness? School Sports, Peer Networks, and Male Adolescent Violence
Persistent Patterns of International Commerce
A Structural Theory of Imperialism
Networks in Context
Strangers in the Halls
Measuring Tie Strength
Change and Continuity in American Politics
Informant Accuracy in Social Network Data
Ideological and Interpersonal Change in the Radical Protest Movement
The 'New' Science of Networks
Birds of a Feather
Interorganizational Relations
Informant Accuracy in Social Network Data Ii
Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties
Collaboration and Creativity
Cooperation and the Emergence of Role Differentiation in the Dynamics of Social Networks
Social Networks and Employee Performance in a Call Center
Chains of Affection
Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434
Different Strokes from Different Folks
Social Movements and Network Analysis
Social Contexts, Social Networks, and Urban Neighborhoods
The Strength of Weak Ties
| Unique citing works | 113 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 113 |