Multimodal Political Networks
Part of Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
- Authors:
- David Knoke, University of Minnesota
- Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy
- James Hollway, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
- Dimitris Christopoulos, MU Vienna and Edinburgh Business School
- Date Published: May 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108984720
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Research on social networks has become a significant area of investigation in the social sciences, and social network concepts and tools are widely employed across many subfields within the field. This volume introduces political theorists and researchers to new theoretical, methodological, and substantive tools for extending political network research into new realms and revitalizing established domains. The authors synthesize new understandings of multimodal political networks, consisting of two or more types of social entities - voters, politicians, parties, events, organizations, nations - and the complex relations between them. They discuss ways to theorize about multimodal connections, methods for measuring and analyzing multimodal datasets, and how the results can reveal new insights into political structures and action. Several empirical applications demonstrate in great detail how multimodal analysts can detect and visualize political communities consisting of diverse social entities.
Read more- Addresses gaps in the literature on multimodal analysis
- Suitable for readers with a basic familiarity with social network analysis
- Suggests future research applications of multimodal ideas
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'This book is a must have and must read for all policy researchers and social scientists interested in social network analysis and its application. It allows for the right mix between 'keeping complexity' to grasp the intricacies of the political game and 'reducing complexity' to come to systematic, comparative, and generalizable results. It gives essential guidelines on how to analyze two- and multi-mode networks.' Karin Ingold, University of Bern
See more reviews'If you need to model 3-mode networks combining, for example, persons, organizations and events, this book is the perfect methodological and illustrative introduction to the new formalisms that have emerged for empirical explorations and theory building in the last decade, and that keep emerging today.' Emmanuel Lazega, Sciences Po, Paris
'this work brings together four international experts to provide robust exploration of multimodality in different types of political networks and demonstrate how computational social network analysis may be applied in their study ... The book would be a valuable addition to library collections supporting research in political science ... Recommended.' K. J. Whitehair, Choice
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- Date Published: May 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108984720
- length: 250 pages
- dimensions: 150 x 230 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Politics, Communities, and Power
2. Multimodal Graphs and Matrices
3. Agency, Influence, Power
4. Political Communities in a Policy Network
5. Individuals in Associations: Structuring Civil Society
6. Agents and Events in Collective Action Fields
7. Nations Trading and Fighting
8. Legislative Influence
9. The Potential of Multimodal Political Networks.
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"As a complement to the book "Multimodal Political Networks", migraph extends existing graph and network packages in R for the analysis of multimodal networks. It includes a range of measures, methods and models as well as replication data from the book to support both teaching and research on multimodal network analysis."
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