TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1985//
TI  - Perceived leadership stability and the structure of urban agenda-setting networks
JO  - Social networks
A1  - Bolland, John M.
SP  - 153
EP  - 172
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
N2  - A number of recent studies have addressed the informal social structure surrounding urban decision making, showing its implications for collective political action. This paper extends these analyses by asking a prior question: what factors affect the structure of political networks? Specifically, the paper develops a model suggesting how one such factor, perceptions of political leadership and the expectations of political conflict they may engender, affect the structure of urban agenda-setting networks. Data collected from six cities show perceptions of leadership stability to be strongly correlated with four structural characteristics of these networks.<p /> 
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SN  - 0378-8733
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(85)90003-6
ID  - ref1
ER  -