The internationalization of policies and politics is catching the attention of a growing number
of scholars in the field of international political economy and comparative public policy (Knill …

This paper offers a structured overview of 50 years of small-world research. Initially
formulated by Pool and Kochen in the mid-1950s, the small-world concept can be divided …

Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and
disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the …

Two dominant theories within family research foresee a long‐term decline in marriage,
fertility, and partner stability. They also assume that this “less‐family” scenario will be …

In most natural and engineered systems, a set of entities interact with each other in
complicated patterns that can encompass multiple types of relationships, change in time and …

Online hate and extremist narratives have been linked to abhorrent real-world events,
including a current surge in hate crimes,,,,–and an alarming increase in youth suicides that …

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and
Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in …

How do social networks affect the spread of behavior? A popular hypothesis states that
networks with many clustered ties and a high degree of separation will be less effective for …

For nearly a decade now, academic social movement studies have been shaped by the
organizing efforts and conceptual frameworking of the three authors of the present book …

The central argument of network research is that actors are embedded in networks of
interconnected social relationships that offer opportunities for and constraints on behavior …