Networked Governance ― New Research Perspectives

This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research. In doing so, contributions take into account the increasingly complex forms which governance faces, consisting of different types of actors (e.g. individuals, states, economic entities, NGOs, IGOs), instruments (e.g. law, suggestions, flexible norms) and arenas from the local up to the global level, and which more and more questions theoretical models that have focused primarily on markets and hierarchies. The topics addressed in this volume are processes of coordination, arriving at and implementing decisions taking place in network(ed) (social) structures; such as governance of work relations, of financial markets, of innovation and politics. These processes are investigated and discussed from sociologists’, political scientists’ and economists’ viewpoints. ?

Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske studied Sociology, Political Science, and Economics at Philipps Universitat Marburg and Public Administration at the German University of Administration Sciences Speyer. He worked as Research Assistant at the Universities of Paderborn and Mainz and held positions as Assistent Professor (1991-1998, Technische Universitat Berlin), Acting Professor (1998-2000, University of Paderborg) and Full Professor of Business Administration at the International Institute for Management of Flensburg University (2000-2008). He is currently Professor at Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg. Furthermore, he is associated as Research Professor with the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin.

Prof. Dr.?Betina Hollstein?studied sociology at Philipps Universitat Marburg and at the Free University, Berlin. She received her doctorate degree at the Free University, Berlin and has been lecturer and researcher at the Free University, Berlin (1992-1998), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (1998-2000), Mannheim University (2001-2003) and Humboldt-University, Berlin (2003-2005). Actually, she holds a chair in Microsociology at the Department of Socioeconomics, University of Hamburg (since 2009). She is acting director of the Graduate School, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, and director of the Centre for Globalisation and Governance (CGG) at Hamburg University. She is board member of the German Sociological Association. She is member of the editorial board of Connections, the Journal of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) and designated Editor of Soziologische Revue. She has been Simon Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, UK (2012) and Visiting Fellow at Yale University (2010). Her research interests include social networks, sociology of the life-course, social inequality, methods.

Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schnapp studied Political Science and Public Administration in Berlin and Minneapolis. He worked as Junior Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and as postdoctoral researcher at the Otto-Friedrich-University? Bamberg and the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He currently is Professor for Political Science, especially Research Methodology at the University of Hamburg.