Networks in social policy problems / edited by Balazs Vedres and Marco Scotti
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Descript
xii, 299 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Dissemination of health information within social networks -- Scientific teams and networks change the face of knowledge creation -- Structural folds: the innovative potential of overlapping groups -- Team formation and performance on nonoHub: a network selection challenge in scientific communities -- Modes of coordination of collective action: what actors in policy-making? -- Why skewed distributions of pay for executives is the cause of much grief: puzzles and few answer (so far) -- Networks of institutional capture: a case of business in the state apparatus -- The social and institutional structure of corruption: some typical network configurations of corruption transactions in Hungary -- How creative elements help the recovery of networks after crisis: lessons from biology -- Networks and globalization policies -- Network science in ecology: the structure of ecological communities and the biodiversity question -- Supply security in the European natural gas pipeline network