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Networked Governance: Taking Networks Seriously

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Governance refers to the multitude of ways, mechanisms, and processes in which individuals, companies, organizations, societies, states, and supranational forms of organization arrive at and implement decisions. Governance research today faces increasingly complex organizational forms that consist of different types of actors, instruments, and arenas from the local up to the global level. This questions theoretical models that focus primarily on markets and hierarchies as modes of governance. In this book, we seek to explore older as well as emergent forms of governance by using concepts and methods of social network analysis. The introduction outlines the basic ideas of this approach and provides an overview of the contributions assembled in this volume.

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    For a more extensive treatment of the history of social network analysis, see Freeman (2004), Schnegg (2010), Scott and Carrington (2011), Ward et al. (2011), and Carrington (2014).

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    We are grateful to the School of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg for their financial support of this event.

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  1. Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Mary-Somerville-Str. 9, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Betina Hollstein

  2. Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, IPA Institute for Employment Relations and Labour, Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of the FAF Hamburg, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043, Hamburg, Germany

    Wenzel Matiaske

  3. Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Social Science Department, Universität Hamburg, Mittelweg 177, 20148, Hamburg, Germany

    Kai-Uwe Schnapp

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    Wenzel Matiaske

  3. Political Science Department, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Kai-Uwe Schnapp

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Hollstein, B., Matiaske, W., Schnapp, KU. (2017). Networked Governance: Taking Networks Seriously. In: Hollstein, B., Matiaske, W., Schnapp, KU. (eds) Networked Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50386-8_1

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