International initiatives in education, such as PISA and the Bologna Process, have distinctly changed conditions framing domestic policy-making. This paper sheds light on the territorial and modal dispersion of national education policy networks by means of a systematic network analytical...

In this paper, I review existing approaches to network analysis in comparative politics and International Relations (IR). I argue that the theoretical and empirical exploration of global policy networks in IR today can benefit from systematically taking into account the literature that has...

Der Band versammelt zentrale, teilweise unveröffentlichte Aufsätze der Autorin zu den relevanten Fragen sozialwissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung. Die Themen reichen von Problemen der Kontextabhängigkeit über die Herausforderungen der Soziologie durch die moderne Biologie bis hin zu den...

This publication contains the proceedings of the World Forum on Key Indicators held in Palermo in November 2004. In it, statisticians from governmental statistical offices, international organisations, and academia explain why indicator systems are useful and how statistics can be used, how to...