Balazs Vedres
Associate Professor
Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Vedres' research furthers the agenda of understanding historical dynamics in network systems, combining insights from historical sociology, social network analysis, and studies of complex systems in physics and biology. His contribution is to combine historical sensitivities to patterns of processes in time with a network analytic sensitivity to patterns of connectedness cross-sectionally. Over the last decade Balazs Vedres developed data collection and analysis techniques to handle large historical datasets. His research results were published in the top journals of sociology, his most recent publication in the American Journal of Sociology analyzes generative tensions in the historical evolution of business groups.
Research Interest
Post-socialist economic and social transformations; civil society organizations and technology.
Publications
-
Balazs Vedres and Laszlo Bruszt. "La promozione dello sviluppo dall'esterno. Le agenzie per lo sviluppo locale nell'Europa centrale e orientale." Stato e Mercato80(2):189-219.
-
Balazs Vedres and David Stark. “Structural Folds: Generative Disruption in Overlapping Groups†American Journal ofSociology115(4): 1150-90.
-
Laszlo Bruszt and Balazs Vedres. “Local developmental agency from without.†Theory and Society,forthcoming.
