Although sociologists have frequently touched on ideas related to brokerage in their
research, brokerage is rarely considered a central concept in the discipline's theoretical or …

Context: This article presents the main results from a large‐scale analytical systematic
review on knowledge exchange interventions at the organizational and policymaking levels …

The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most
accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review …

Many citizens in the US and abroad fear that democratic institutions have become weak, and
continue to weaken. Politics with the People develops the principles and practice of'directly …

This article discusses policy network analysis, which is the most common species of network
analysis in political science. It provides a review of related literature on policy network …

Policy actors seek network contacts to improve individual payoffs in the institutional
collective action dilemmas endemic to fragmented policy arenas. The risk hypothesis argues …

Information exchange in policy networks is usually attributed to preference similarity,
influence reputation, social trust, and institutional actor roles. We suggest that political …

Describing new techniques and novel applications, Handbook of Research Methods in
Public Administration, Second Edition demonstrates the use of tools designed to meet the …

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 …

David Knoke and Song Yang′ s Social Network Analysis, Third Edition provides a concise
introduction to the concepts and tools of social network analysis. The authors convey key …