Organizing for Collective Action: The Political Economies of Associations

ISBN-13: 9781138512870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 258 str.

David Knoke

Opis

Organizing for Collective Action investigates the political and economic behaviors of national associations, including trade associations, professional societies, labor unions, and public interest groups

Spis treści

PART I Introduction. PART II Theory and Data. PART III Organsational Ecomony PART IV Organisational Polity PART V Conclusion.

O autorze

David Knoke is Chairman, Department of Sociology. University of Minnesota, and was Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat, Kiel (1989). Dr. Knoke was co-founder and acting chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Political Sociology, served as its newsletter co-editor, and is on the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly. In addition to numerous journal articles, his most recent books include Organized for Action (with J.R. Wood, 1981), Network Analysis (with J.H. Kuklinski, 1982), The Organizational State (with E.G. Laumann, 1987), and Statistics for Social Data Analysis (withGW. Bohrnstedt, 2nd Ed. 1987) and Political Networks: The Structural Perspective (1990). Dr. Knoke received his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1972, and taught for 13 years at Indiana University. His main area of research is political sociology, with special interests in organizations and social networks.