10 articles in this issue
Jeffrey Kentor
This special issue of JWSR is the offspring of an ASA Political Economy of the World System session that I organized in 2007. My thanks to Andrew Jorgenson, co-editor of JWSR, who moderated the session and proposed that I put together a special issue on t... see more
Pablo Lapegna
How does ethnography come to terms with our current global condition? Being a method characterized by its in-depth knowledge of a bounded space, how does ethnography cope with a world scale? How does the global condition affect the definitions of key ethn... see more
Thomas D. Hall
This paper examines ways in which world-system analysis can be employed fruitfully to explore frontier social processes. Conversely, it also examines how frontier social processes and events can be very valuable explorations of highly localized processes ... see more
Paulett Lloyd, Matthew C. Mahutga, Jan De Leeuw
We review three decades of research linking social network methods with world systems theory. We identify four themes nested within two versions of a general social network methodologythe identification of network Roles and Position. The themes vary by th... see more
Salvatore Babones
Much quantitative macro-comparative research (QMCR) relies on a common set of published data sources to answer similar research questions using a limited number of statistical tools. Since all researchers have access to much the same data, one might expec... see more
Timothy Patrick Moran
When I first received the papers as discussant for the ASA panel, Methodology for World-Systems Analysis (the papers that would come to constitute this journals special issue), I didnt quite know how to proceed. In large part, the papers used innovative m... see more
Samuel Cohn
Matthew R. Sanderson
Stephen Philion
Jackie Smith