The question of the aggregation and disaggregation of political actors is essential for the understanding of the future of global politics, both in terms of international security affairs and international political economy. A model based upon tribute is presented to show how new political actors can emerge from an aggregation of smaller political actors. The tribute model provides an existence...

The idea behind the reputational measure for assessing power of political actors is that actors involved in a decision-making process have the best view of their fellows’ power. There has been, however, no systematic examination of why actors consider other actors as powerful. Consequently, it is unclear whether

Conflicting interests make forests an inevitably political issue. We examine the roles that Finnish forest owners take as decision-makers and citizens. Inspired by post-political theories of democracy, we owners’ aim open, constructive treatment controversies between views, ideologies actors. Our data consisted a survey (n = 452) informed interview 24). applied mixed-method critical discourse a...

social networks have been widely interested by many academics and industry researchers due to extensive functions and interactions.this study aims to identify the requirements, issues, and the main effective factors on the formation of social networks of technology and innovation management actors. the research method is descriptive-survey which the requirements of actors in management of techn...

In this work we are interested in identifying clusters of "positional equivalent" actors, i.e. actors who play a similar role in a system. In particular, we analyze weighted bipartite networks that describes the relationships between actors on one side and features or traits on the other, together with the intensity level to which actors show their features. We develop a methodological approach...