Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- INTRODUCTION: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTEXT -- 1 Returning to the Social Logic of Politics -- 2 Individuals, Dyads, and Networks:Autoregressive Patterns of Political Influence -- I. FAMILIES AS SOURCES OF STRONG POLITICAL TIES -- 3 Political Similarity and Influence between Husbands and Wives -- 4 Do Couples Support the Same Political Parties? Sometimes: Evidence from British and German Household Panel Surveys -- 5 Family Ties: Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation -- II. FRIENDS, WORKMATES, NEIGHBORS, AND POLITICALCONTEXTS: THE EFFECTS OF WEAK TIES ON ELECTORAL CHOICESAND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- 6 Changing Class Locations and Partisanship in Germany -- 7 Choosing Alone? The Social Network Basis of Modern Political Choice -- 8 Friends and Politics: Linking Diverse Friendship Networks to Political Participation -- 9 Networks, Gender, and the Use of State Authority: Evidence from a Study of Arab Immigrants in Detroit -- 10 Putting Voters in their Places: Local Context and Voting in England and Wales, 1997 -- 11 Party Identification, Local Partisan Contexts, and the Acquisition of Participatory Attitudes -- 12 Macro-Politics and Micro-Behavior: Mainstream Politics and the Frequency of Political Discussion inContemporary Democracies -- III. THE SOCIAL LOGIC OF POLITICS: LOOKING AHEAD -- 13 Agent-Based Explanations for the Survival of Disagreement in Social Networks -- 14 Turnout in a Small World -- Notes -- References -- Index.