PolSci Volume 18, number 1 (Summer 2018) is exclusively concerned with addressing the complexities of empirical social and political networks. Capturing both the substantive and methodological breadth of social-scientific network analysis, the four original research articles address a variety of topics, with different approaches, methods, and relational data: counter-narcotics organisational cooperation in Afghanistan, collaboration networks among European cities, networks of employment prospects and destinations of higher education graduates, and the political networks of party switchers.

