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Between Politics and Markets
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 30.00Between Politics and Markets examines how the decline of central planning in post-Mao China was related to the rise of two markets - an economic market for the exchange of products and factors, and a political market for the diversion to private interests of state assets and authorities. more...
Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 50.00The aim of this work is to shed new light on the historical development of the Third Republic French labor movement and to develop a more generic understanding of schism and solidarity in organizations and social movements. more...
Social Capital
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 25.00Social Capital explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) in achieving goals for individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities. more...
Legalizing Gender Inequality
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 29.00Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender-based pay inequality. The book argues that earnings differentials cannot be explained adequately by market forces or society-wide sexism and that the court's reliance upon these theories has tended to legitimate and to legalize a crucial dimension of gender inequality. more...
Social Connections in China
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 29.00Guanxi (social networks) is among the most important and studied phenomena in China today. In this volume, the editors bring together many of the top scholars of guanxi to present a dynamic view of the role of social networks in Chinese society. more...
Generalized Blockmodeling
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 89.00This book provides an integrated treatment of blockmodeling, the most frequently used technique in social network analysis. The authors propose direct optimizational approaches to blockmodeling which yield blockmodels that best fit the network data. Generalizations and the deductive use of blockmodeling are proposed while substantive implications are... more...
Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 99.00The economies of South Korea and Taiwan in the second half of the 20th century are to scholars of economic development what the economy of Britain in the late 18th and early 19th century is to economic historians. This book offers an original explanation of these development paths. more...
The Politics of High-Tech Growth
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00The book provides a detailed study of the software industry in Ireland, of the state policies that promoted it, the political institutions which made that possible and of how similar institutions have been central to other high tech regions in Taiwan, Israel and elsewhere. more...
Japan's Network Economy
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 38.00This book traces the evolution of Japan's network economy during the twentieth century, concluding that relationships are still central to the Japanese way of business, but are much more subordinated to the strategies of individual enterprises than the Japanese network economy of the past. more...
Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00This book consists of original review articles by leading methodologists, all commissioned exclusively for this volume. The book will complement the classic text by Wasserman and Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (also available from Cambridge University Press). more...









