Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Edinburgh
I am a comparative economic and political sociologist with methodological interests in social network analysis and computational social science.
Publications
Van Gunten, T.S. (2024) ‘Elite Politics and Economic Crisis: Hyperinflation in Argentina, 1989–1990’, in R.J. Emigh and D. Riley (eds) Political Power and Social Theory. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 141–173. Open access
Van Gunten, T. (2023) ‘Mapping Economists’ Belief Spaces Using Survey Data’, OEconomia / History, Methodology, Philosophy, (13–2), pp. 517–557. Replication materials.
Kozlowski, A.C. and Van Gunten, T.S. (2023) ‘Are Economists Overconfident? Ideology and Uncertainty in Expert Opinion’, British Journal of Sociology, 7(3), pp. 476–500.
Van Gunten, T. (2022) ‘Analyzing Online Social Networks’, in K. Gregory (ed.) SAGE Research Methods Online. London: SAGE Publications, Ltd. preprint
Van Gunten, T. (2021) ‘Visualizing the Network Structure of COVID-19 in Singapore’, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 7, pp. 1–3
Van Gunten, T. and Kohl, S. (2020) ‘The inversion of the ‘really big trade-off’: homeownership and pensions in long-run perspective’, West European Politics, 43(2), pp. 435–463.
Van Gunten, T. and Navot, E. (2018) ‘Varieties of indebtedness: Financialization and mortgage market institutions in Europe’, Social Science Research, 70, pp. 90–106.
Van Gunten, T.S. (2017) ‘Washington dissensus: ambiguity and conflict at the International Monetary Fund’, Socio-Economic Review, 15(1), pp. 65–84.
Van Gunten, T., Martin, J. and Teplitskiy, M. (2016) ‘Consensus, polarization, and alignment in the economics profession’, Sociological Science, 3, pp. 1028–1052.
Van Gunten, T.S. (2015) ‘Cohesion, consensus, and conflict: Technocratic elites and financial crisis in Mexico and Argentina’, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 56(5), pp. 366–390.
Van Gunten, T.S. (2015) ‘Cycles of polarization and settlement: diffusion and transformation in the macroeconomic policy field’, Theory and Society, 44(4), pp. 321–354.
Levi Martin, J., van Gunten, T. and Zablocki, B.D. (2012) ‘Charisma, status, and gender in Groups with and without gurus’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51(1), pp. 20–41.
Work in progress and recent presentations
Van Gunten, T.S and Atalay, A. (2025) Genre Complexes and Cultural Globalization: A Network Approach. Presentation at the 2025 INSNA Sunbelt Conference, Paris, June 2025. See also earlier presentation of this work at the 2023 Cultural Data Analytics Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, December 2023.
Van Gunten, T.S. (2024). Elite Polarization in Argentina: A Legislative Co-sponsorship approach.. Presentation at the 2024 INSNA Sunbelt Conference, Edinburgh, June 2024.