Peter Hedström - Publications#

Full CV and list of publications

Selected Books

The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology. Oxford University Press, 2009 (with Peter Bearman).

The Frontiers of Sociology. Brill, 2009 (with Björn Wittrock)

Anatomie des Sozialen - Prinzipen der Analytischen Soziologie. VS Verlag, 2008.

Anatomia del Sociale: Sui principi della sociologia analitica. Bruno Mondadori, 2006.

Dissecting the Social: On the Principles of Analytical Sociology. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Kvantitativa Metoder: Grundläggande analysmetoder for samhälls- och beteendevetare. [Quantitative Methods for Social and Behavioural Scientists]. Studentlitteratur, 2003 (with Christofer Edling).

Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1998 (with Richard Swedberg).

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

Causal mechanisms in the social sciences (with Petri Ylikoski). Annual Review of Sociology 36: 49–67.

What is analytical sociology all about? An introductory essay (with P. Bearman). Pp. 3 - 24 in P. Hedström and P. Bearman (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Interaction domains and suicides: A population-based panel study of suicides in the Stockholm metropolitan area, 1991-1999|] (with Ka-Yuet Liu and Monica Nordvik). Social Forces 87(2): 713 - 740.

Studying mechanisms to strengthen causal inferences in quantitative research in J. M. Box-Steffensmeier, H. E. Brady and D. Collier (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Tocqueville and analytical sociology (with Christofer Edling). Pp. 153-172 in Raymond Boudon: A Life in Sociology, edited by Mohamed Cherkaoui and Peter Hamilton. Oxford: The Bardwell Press.

Rational choice and sociology (with Charlotta Stern). Pp. 872-877 in S.N. Durlauf and L.E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Explaining the growth patterns of social movements. Pp. 111-26 in J. Elster et. al. (eds.) Understanding Choice, Explaining Behaviour. Oslo: Oslo University Press.

Meso-level networks and the diffusion of social movements (with Rickard Sandell and Charlotta Stern). American Journal of Sociology 106(1): 145-172.

Social mechanisms (with Richard Swedberg). Pp. 1-31 in P. Hedström and R. Swedberg (eds.) Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory.

Rational imitation. Pp. 306-327 in P. Hedström and R. Swedberg (eds.) Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory.

Popper's situational analysis and contemporary sociology (with Richard Swedberg and Lars Udehn). Philosophy of the Social Sciences 28(3): 339-364.

Contagious collectivities: On the spatial diffusion of Swedish trade unions, 1890-1940. American Journal of Sociology 99(5): 1157-1179.

Organizational differentiation and earnings dispersion. American Journal of Sociology 97 (1): 96-113.

Organizational vacancy chains and the attainment process. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 17 (1): 63-76.