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The shift to an open systems perspective, particularly with its increased focus on interorganizational relations, provided anoth ...

on theXoor of the Chicago stock exchange was among theWrst to call attention to social networks underpinning market exchange. He ...

English Civil War emerged from networks of religious patronage and Padgett and Ansell ( 1993 ) demonstrated the way the Medicis’ ...

used network approaches to model how social inXuence processes work through networks. Friedkin ( 1998 ) provides a powerful appr ...

potential of network institutionalism. This chapter has featured work attentive to the ways in which networks operate as mechani ...

—— and Goodwin,J. 1994. Network analysis, culture, and the problem of agency.Ameri- can Journal of Sociology, 99 : 1411 – 54. Fa ...

Lin, N., Cook, K., and Burt, R. (eds.) 2001 .Social Capital: Theory and Research. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Locke,R. 1994 .Re ...

Wasserman, S. and Faust,K. 1994 .Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Watts ...

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traditions discussed below. I argue there is life in all these old dogs. Moreover, formal-legal analysis is not dead. Rather I a ...

customary, unquestioned ways of behaving or with the entrenched folklore of premodern societies (cf. Oakeshott 1962 , 123 , 128 ...

behavioralism was a reaction against the old institutionalism. This reaction comes in three main guises, each rooted in one of t ...

most of what we need’’ for ‘‘detailed description, classiWcation and comparison’’ and the ‘‘explanatory problem is simply that o ...

and undermine representative democracy. Moreover, the term ‘‘constitution’’ can be narrowly conWned to the constitutional docume ...

perspective’’ and we ‘‘appreciate... that the roots of the present lie buried deep in the past, and... that history is past poli ...

Outside the tradition of constitutionalism, the French approach to the study of institutions remains distinctive and does not en ...

For Oakeshott ( 1962 , 126 – 7 ) a tradition is a ‘‘Xow of sympathy’’ and in any political activity we ‘‘sail a boundless and bo ...

Saudi model means that you cannot have elections, leaders emerge by consensus and rule according to the teachings of the Koran. ...

which theyWnd themselves. However that context is not neutral. It too is strategic- ally selective in the sense that it privileg ...

3 Non-Marxists: Fabian Social Engineering One strand in Fabian thought espoused social and administrative engineering: ‘‘disin ...