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Networks have become one of the major paradigms in social sciences to illustrate all kinds of relationships between social actors. However, as manifold as social actors can be, as different are the approaches that deal with networks as a general analytic tool. This chapter presents three network approaches: heuristics, governance school, and social network analysis (SNA) and will put its emphasis on the latter. SNA, as an important theoretical approach in many neighboring social sciences, promises to be most beneficial for the study of inter-organizational relations.

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  1. Institute for Political Science, Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany

    Matthias Schulze & Florian Ries

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  1. Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

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Schulze, M., Ries, F. (2017). Social Network Analysis. In: Koops, J., Biermann, R. (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36039-7_5

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