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Welcome to The Program on Networked Governance
The traditional notion of hierarchical, top down,
government has always been an imperfect match for the decentralized
governance system of the US. However, much of what government does
requires co-production of policy among agencies that have no formal
authority over each other, fundamentally undermining the traditional
Weberian image of bureaucracy. Networked governance refers to a
growing body of research on the interconnectedness of essentially
sovereign units, which examines how those interconnections facilitate
or inhibit the functioning of the overall system. The objective
of this program is two-fold: (1) to foster research on networked
governance and (2) to provide a forum to discuss the challenges
of networked governance.
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CCCSN and PNG events archive (2001 - present) |
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TAICON events archive |
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06/11-13/2009 - Harvard Political Networks Conference
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04/06/2009 - PNG/CCCSN Seminar
"Diffusion in Social Networks: New Theory and Experiments"
Damon Centola, MIT
Taubman-275, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
04/13/2009 - PNG/CCCSN Seminar
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Bldg, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
04/27/2009 - PNG/CCCSN Seminar
"Genes and Social Networks"
James Fowler, UCSD
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Bldg, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
05/11/2009 - PNG/CCCSN Seminar
Eszter Hargittai, Northwestern
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Bldg, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
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03/02/2009 - PNG/CCCSN Seminar
"Using Sensors to Make Sense of People: Inferring the Micro and Macro Level Properties of Social Networks from Mobile Sensor Data"
Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth
Taubman-275, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
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11/24/2008 - PNG/CCCSN Seminar
"Honest Signals"
Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT
Taubman-275, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
06/13-14/2008
The Harvard
Networks in Political Science Conference
(with pre-Conference Workshops
June 11 & 12)
12/07/2007
Video now available
for: The
Eric M. Mindich Conference on Computational
Social Science
04/10/2007
The Center for European Studies
at Harvard - 4:15-6:00pm
"The
Information Society and the Democratic Process:
A Take on the French Elections"
Busch
Hall, Cabot Room, 27 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Please take a look at the entries on our
blog and participate in the discussion.
The objective of this blog is to offer a
forum for the discussion of the intertwined
subjects of network analysis and complex
systems theory. Click here to go to the
Complexity
and Social Networks Blog
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*A light lunch will be served at each seminar.
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| Featured
Research and News |
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David
Lazer et al., "Computational Social Science," Science, 6 February 2009: 721-723 is now available online, in print, or by emailing David Fishman. Access the full text online from David Lazer's Publications page. Please see the Complexity and Social Networks Blog for a preprint version of the paper. Supporting online material is available for free on the Science website. |
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David
Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger's Edited
Volume Governance
and Information: From Electronic Government
to Information Government (MIT Press
2007) is now available! |
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07/15/2007
& 04/01/2007 CBS
60 Minutes
"NOT
SO PERFECT MATCH"
David Lazer and Fred Bieber's research on
familial searching was featured in the CBS
News program 60
Minutes (Watch
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David
Lazer (Ed.), 2004, DNA
and the Criminal Justice System, MIT Press. |
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Please
join us in the effort to build/create the
first Google-Maps mash-up of the global research
community on social networks.
Please go to the following website called
Sociallight and add your or other peoples
information (location, name, research interest,
URL) to our channel/map called "Social
Networks". Registration is necessary
to add a marker but is free and can be done
in less than 5 minutes. |
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Google
Maps mash-up of 3-1-1/N-1-1 type non-emergency
government service projects in the U.S.
and around the globe. Please report any new
developments or projects to the email below. |
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Alexander
Schellong, 2008.
Citizen Relationship Management - A Study
of CRM in Government. Frankfurt: Peter
Lang Publishing. |
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08/30/2007
Postdoctoral Fellow Ines
Mergel is now Assistant Professor of
Information Management and Public Management
at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs, Syracuse University in New
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04/03/2007
Article about David Lazer's Kennedy School
course "Building Organizational Social
Capital" in The Korea Times, "Organic
Leadership Via Networking." |
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02/26/2007
David Lazer quoted in, "Feds
welcome expanded DNA tests" Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review. |
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01/04/2007
David Lazer quoted in, "Many
DNA matches aren't acted on" USA
Today. |
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07/28/2006
This figure by David Lazer/ Ines Mergel/ Allan
Friedman plots the citation
patterns of social network papers published
in 2005 in the American Journal of Sociology. |
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05/11/2006
Frederick Bieber, David
Lazer and Charles Brenner Science paper
on "Finding Criminals Through DNA of
Their Relatives" appears on Harvard
University Gazette / CNN.COM / MSNBC
/ ABC News / Boston
Globe / New
York Times / Washington
Post / Chicago Tribune / The
Seattle Times / LA Times / FoxNews / Forbes
/ USAToday
/ Pravda
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Chronicle / Heise.de
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News / NPR |
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05/15/2005
Ines Mergel/
David Lazer: Tutorial on Application
of Social Network Analysis in Digital Government
Research
dg.O 2005 , Atlanta (Program, Handouts, Presentations) |
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UMass
Amherst INFORMS Seminar Series schedule |
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Acknowledgment and Disclaimer: This material is based upon work supported
by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0131923.
Any opinions, findings, and
conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those
of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
National Science Foundation (NSF).
©
2005 Concept & Design by Alexander Schellong | Updates by Bernie Cahill and David Fishman
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2005 The
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