Christopher Freeman: social science entrepreneur

Policy entrepreneur and social policy innovation in China

Fostering policy innovation at the local level and spreading the successful practice have been pervasive features of policy making in postreform China. The existing literature explains why the local government launches innovations and what enables these innovations. However, little research has been done on the emerging process of the new ideas and the process in which new policies are accepted...

Social science. Computational social science.

Freeman ( 2005 ) - Graphic Techniques for Exploring Social Network Data

The spatial arrangement of social network data in graphs can influence viewers’ perceptions of structural characteristics such as prominence, bridging and grouping. To study the extent of this effect, we conducted an experiment with 80 graduate students. Each student viewed three of five different spatial arrangements of the same network. We found that viewers' perceptions of structural feature...

Freeman, J

Extending Network Analysis with Social Inclusions: A Chinese Entrepreneur Building Social Capital

Social network analysis is a highly useful tool to study the way individuals form alliances to cope with their daily tasks on the micro-level. We can map the interaction between the key persons involved into a graph, representing the social network. The result is then a snapshot of who interacts with whom and why/how at the time the data were collected. However, when trying to apply it to a hig...