This paper develops a political sensemaking approach to the post-acquisition integration process, which directs attention to how powerful social actors construct the relationship between multinational corporations (MNCs) and their multiple local contexts. This political, processual and actor-centred perspective explores subsidiary integration as identity construction and institution building. T...

Most political bargaining in the U.S. system has two features which are constitutionally mandated: (1) only one actor can make a formal proposal, and (2) he or she can make an indefinite number of proposals. Existing work in economics and political science ignores at least one of these features. I construct a model incorporating both of these components of political bargaining. The main finding...

Actor Network Theory (ANT) studies provide detailed accounts of how human and non-human actors gradually form stable actor-networks. Actor Network Theory has been deployed in various environments to achieve a better understanding of the roles of the humans as well as the artifacts that constitute actor networks. This paper examines the use of ANT, enhanced by stakeholder analysis as used in inf...

Information exchange in policy networks is usually attributed to preference similarity, influence reputation, social trust and institutional actor roles. We suggest that political opportunity structures and transaction costs play another crucial role and estimate a rich statistical network model on tie formation in the German toxic chemicals policy domain. The results indicate that the effect o...

Nation-states, like their citizens, are dependent on their peers for cues about what passes for appropriate behavior. With respect to the evolution of political institutions, the result is the proliferation of political fads among certain clusters of countries, a process which scholars describe in terms of “waves”, “contagion”, “isomorphism”, and “refl ection”. The idea that the adoption of a p...

This article examines the connection between political parties’ perceptions of importance news media as source information, and extent to which they adapt their communications standards, routines, formats logic in Cameroon. This, with objective being attractive gain coverage. The contextual focus study is 2018 presidential election campaign Theoretically, guided by mediatization politics hypoth...

Political economy and economic sociology have developed in relative isolation from each other. While political economy focuses largely on macrophenomena, economic sociology focuses on the level of social interaction in the economy. The paper argues that economic sociology can provide a microfoundation of political economy beyond rational actor theory and behavioral economics. Based on a discuss...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...

In a recent editorial for this journal, Sergio Sismondo makes two claims. First, he states that STS bears no responsibility for the emergence of post-truth politics. Second, he claims that debates about the nature of expertise that take place within STS are irrelevant in this context. In contrast, we argue that, whether or not STS had a causal influence on the emergence of post-truth politics, ...