What Can Political Science Learn from Business and Management?

This chapter is one of six in this book in which leading scholars from other fields are interviewed about network science. These scholars bring to bear the perspective and experience of their fields, as well as insights about how network science integrates with questions that tend to be of interest to political scientists. They have knowledgeable and unique perspectives on the potential intellectual contributions that political scientists can make using network science approaches. This interview brings perspectives from the field of business and management to the study of political networks. Importantly, Stephen Borgatti has been a leader in the field in terms of developing applications and demonstrating productive application of network tools to questions of relevance. In this interview he brings these insights to political science.

What Can Political Science Learn from Computer Science?

This chapter is one of six in this book in which a leading scholar from another field is interviewed about network science. These scholars bring to bear the perspective and experience of their fields, as well as insights about how network science integrates with questions that tend to be of interest to political scientists. They have knowledgeable and unique perspectives on the potential intellectual contributions that political scientists can make using network science approaches. In this chapter, Derek Ruths describes how computer science has contributed to, and learned from, applications of political networks emphasizing areas where collaborations between scholars of these fields are likely to be most fruitful.

What Can Political Science Learn from Statistics and Psychology?

This chapter is one of six in this book in which a leading scholar from another field is interviewed about network science. These scholars bring to bear the perspective and experience of their fields, as well as insights about how network science integrates with questions that tend to be of interest to political scientists. They have knowledgeable and unique perspectives on the potential intellectual contributions that political scientists can make using network science approaches.

What Can Political Science Learn from Economics?

This chapter is one of six in this book in which a leading scholar from another field is interviewed about network science. These scholars bring to bear the perspective and experience of their fields, as well as insights about how network science integrates with questions that tend to be of interest to political scientists. They have knowledgeable and unique perspectives on the potential intellectual contributions that political scientists can make using network science approaches.

What Can Political Science Learn from Sociology?

This chapter is one of six in this book in which a leading scholar from another field is interviewed about network science. These scholars bring to bear the perspective and experience of their fields, as well as insights about how network science integrates with questions that tend to be of interest to political scientists. They have knowledgeable and unique perspectives on the potential intellectual contributions that political scientists can make using network science approaches.