Data on social networks may be gathered for all ties linking elements of a closed population
(“complete” network data) or for the sets of ties surrounding sampled individual units …

At once a connection between micro and macro level social theory as well as an epistemic
link between abstract concepts and empirical research, network models offer a powerful …

Directed graph (or digraph) data arise in many fields, especially in contemporary research
on structures of social relationships. We describe an exponential family of distributions that …

This book examines almost two decades of research using the structural or network
approach to political behavior. Network analysis begins with the assumption that the most …

The study of citation networks for both articles and journals is routine. In general, these
analyses proceed by considering the similarity of articles or journals and submitting the set …

Intermediate-scale (or “meso-scale'') structures in networks have received considerable
attention, as the algorithmic detection of such structures makes it possible to discover …

Addresses a phenomenon that has been much studied in anthropology, sociology, and
administrative science—the social structural foundations of coordinated activity and …

We propose a network analytic approach to the community question in order to separate the
study of communities from the study of neighborhoods. Three arguments about the …

This paper addresses world-system/dependency theories of differential economic growth
among nations. We grant that such perspectives have considerable analytic potential but …

In this article, a national securities market-the stock options market-is characterized as a
social structure represented by the networks of actors who traded options on the floor of a …