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A study that gives a concise and coherent overview of the debates surrounding the analysis of social power. It outlines the concept of power and explores its dimensions through consideration of various factors - command, pressure, constraint, discipline, protest and interpersonal power. Aimed at students of sociology and political science as well as the interested general reader, this is an examination of both the theoretical debates that have arisen around power and the empirical materials relevant to these debates. Included are the nature of the contemporary state, global economic power,...

This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust's Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge, 1995). The authors, leading methodologists, present the most significant developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that appeared in the 1990s. They review recent advances in network measurement, network sampling, analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodelling, analysis of diffusion through networks, analysis of affiliation or "two-mode" networks, the theory of random graphs, and dependence graphs.