Networks as Political Glue: Explaining Public Policy-Making

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Network concepts and principles offer a perceptive theoretical framework with which to explain public policy phenomena. By gluing together several levels of analysis—personal, organizational, systemic—the network approach gives a comprehensive account of political activity and its consequences that surpasses other more piecemeal explanations. Much of this approach is based on theoretical and empirical work by Ed Laumann, Franz Pappi, myself, and our colleagues over the past two decades (e.g., Laumann and Pappi 1976; Laumann and Marsden 1979; Knoke and Laumann 1982; Laumann, Knoke, and Kim 1985; Laumann and Knoke 1987; Knoke 1990c; Knoke forthcoming; Pappi and Knoke 1992; Knoke, Pappi, Broadbent, Kaufman, and Tsujinaka forthcoming). Here I provide a synthesis of the ...

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