Governance and transportation policy networks in the cross-border metropolitan region of Luxembourg: A social network analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Dörry ◽  
Antoine Decoville
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Transportation Policy ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Cross

scholarly journals Institutions and Civil Society Relations in Migori County (Kenya): A Social Network Analysis of Weak and Strong Ties

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Teodora Erika Uberti ◽  
Francesco Salsano
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
The Core ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Core Actor

The goal of this paper is to investigate policy networks in Migori, a small county in the Western part of Kenya, near the border with Tanzania and Victoria Lake. In this study we build a unique network database and we use Social Network Analysis techniques to detect the structural relations among different stakeholders (e.g. institutions and civil society actors) within this county and we focus on different topics (i.e. overall interactions, training and cooperation, and for specific decision making on health and nutrition, and agricultural issues). The main results show the importance to distinguish, in policy networks, the rationale of interactions and their intensity, i.e. weak or strong ties. Institutions and civil society organizations are differently connected according to the functions and intensity of networks in which they operate. For example, for health and nutrition the Ministry is the core actor; the opposite occurs in agriculture, where local communities are the core players; and finally in training and coordination we have an intermediate layout, if compared to the two previous ones.

Do shareholder's independency and board size affect synergies from cross-border bank mergers and acquisitions? International evidence from social network analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng-Hung Chen ◽  
Feng-Jui Hsu ◽  
Ying-Chen Lai
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Standard Errors ◽  
Board Size ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Difference

PurposeThere is little known globally on the association among the independent shareholder, board size and merger and acquisition (M&A) performance. This paper addresses the global issue about cross-border M&A in banking sector, particularly exploring the role of difference in the independent shareholder and board size between acquirer and target banks on synergy gains based on the international study.Design/methodology/approachBased on cross-border bank M&As data on 59 deals from 1995 to 2009, we initially apply social network analysis techniques to explore the country connectedness of the acquirer-target banks in cross-border M&As. Ordinary least squares (OLS) with robust standard errors is further used to investigate synergy gains within the difference in the degree of bank independent shareholder and board sizes between the acquirer and target banks.FindingsOur results indicate that the acquiring banks are generally interconnected with the targeted banks and that some of acquiring banks are clearly concentrated in Asian countries including China, Hong Kong, and Philippines. Moreover, we find that cross-border M&As with larger difference in independent shareholders between the bidder and target bank would result in higher synergy gains in all cases of takeover premiums on 1 day, 1 week and 4 weeks. In addition, financial differences between the bidder and target banks have a significant impact on synergetic gains, a topic not explored in previous studies. There is no evidence that institutional and governance differences between bidder and target bank have significant cross-border impacts on takeover premiums with respect to 1 day, 1 week and 4 weeks, respectively.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the literature by exploring the international issue about the role of difference in the degree of bank independent shareholder and board sizes between acquirer and target banks on synergy gains. Based on bank cross-border M&As data on 59 deals from 1995 to 2009, we initially apply social network analysis to explore the country connectedness of acquirer-target bank in cross-border M&As, while ten ordinary least squares (OLS) with robust standard errors is used to investigate synergy gains within the difference in the degree of bank independent shareholder and board sizes between acquirer and target banks.

scholarly journals Un estudio socio-métrico del tema de la moral económica y de su proyección en la Escuela de Salamanca, 1526-1670 / A Sociometric Study on the Topic of Moral Economy and its Projection in the School of Salamanca, 1526-1670

2017 ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Osvaldo Víctor Pereyra
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
School Of Salamanca ◽  
The Cross

This article propounds a network analysis of the group of scholastic theologians that stood out in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries because of their examination of topics of moral economy, better known as the School of Salamanca. To this purpose we suggest the study of their dynamic through three themes: their junction of routes, the diversity of trajectories and the cross-citations among their members. The objective of this analysis is to visualize the importance and relevance of the so-called methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA) in historical field.Key WordsNetworks, Salamanca theologians, centrality, mediation, School of Salamanca.ResumenEl presente artículo presenta un análisis de carácter reticular del grupo de los teólogos escolásticos que sobresalieron en los siglos XVI y XVII por su examen de problemas de moral económica, más conocido como la Escuela de Salamanca. Para tal objeto proponemos el estudio de su dinámica a partir de tres ejes: su confluencia de recorridos, su diversidad de trayectorias y las citas cruzadas entre sus miembros. El propósito del dicho análisis es mostrar la importancia y pertinencia de los llamados Análisis de Redes Sociales (ARS) en el estudio histórico.Palabras clavesRedes, teólogos salmanticenses, centralidad, intermediación, Escuela de Salamanca.

Cooperation and polarization in a Presidential Congress: Policy networks in the Chilean Lower House 2006–2017

Politics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
Carmen Le Foulon Morán
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Degree Of Polarization ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Party Discipline ◽  
Lower House

The joint initiation of legislation is one of the most important forms of collaboration within Congress, and the nature of such relations may affect its responsiveness. Through social network analysis, this article analyses the evolution of cohesion and polarization of policy networks for the Chilean Lower House from 2006 until 2017, comparing those derived from all bills from those that emerge when considering only successful ones. Although scholars consider that initiation of legislation is mostly free of party discipline or policy gatekeeping, networks recovered from all bills despite being highly cohesive replicate the roll-call divisions during all years under analysis. Among networks derived from successful bills – those able to overcome policy gatekeeping, collaboration crosses the ideological divide. These results imply that agenda setting plays a different role on policy collaboration than on voting and emphasize the relevance of the partisan dimension in agenda setting influence presented by Tsebelis and Aleman. Whereas the institutional prerogatives in the Lower House did not change after 2006, the partisan configuration did, which might explain the different degree of polarization among networks of successful bills found before 2006 by other studies.

scholarly journals Power, brokers, and agendas: New directions for the use of social network analysis in education policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Emily Hodge ◽  
Joshua Childs ◽  
Wayne Au
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Advance Theory ◽  
Every Student Succeeds Act

In this special issue, Researching 21st Century Education Policy Through Social Network Analysis, authors use social network analysis (SNA) to explore policy networks, broaden the current literature of sociological approaches to SNA, and/or incorporate new lenses for interpreting policy networks from political science or other academic disciplines. This editorial introduction first provides an overview of policy networks and their relevance in education. Then, the editors describe existing work applying the tools of SNA to education policy and highlight understudied areas before describing the articles included in this issue. These articles apply SNA to a variety of education policy issues, including large scale policies such as the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Common Core State Standards, charter schools, and the relationship between system and non-system actors. Articles highlight multiple applications of SNA, including how SNA can be used to advance theory, as well as describe and predict policy networks.

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