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Over the past century, many public policy and management scholars have advanced our knowledge associated with interdependent and contextual phenomena in the political world using network methods, theories, and perspectives. Yet, methodological individualism (ie treating individual units as independent atomistic elements) deeply rooted in the field of politics and public administration has largely restricted opportunities to understand some of the most critical, multiplex questions through the relational approaches. This book, The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks, edited by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell, offers a much-needed contribution to our understanding of network concepts, empirical measurements, and methods for political network analyses, especially to those of novice or intermediate levels of expertise. This book contains 43 essays from leading scholars …