In this short piece, Bunce and Csanadi draw upon their expertise in political science and political economy to offer some observations about the analysis of social networks. Using both examples and questions they highlight the importance of structural variations in networks, including...

Since 1996, eight elections have taken place in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia that have replaced illiberal with liberal governments. There is ample evidence that these “electoral revolutions” reflected the cross-national diffusion of a distinctive model of regime change that was developed...