Multimodal Political Networks

David Knoke is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento. James Hollway is Associate Professor of International Relations/Political Science at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Dimitris Christopoulos is Director of Research at Edinburgh Business School and Associate Professor at MU Vienna.

• 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.

'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