【專題演講】
講題：Political machines: A network and organizations framework for the study of local politics
講師：Jacob Reidhead(國立政治大學亞太研究英語博士學位學程助理教授)
主持：韋岱思（國立臺北大學社會學系副教授）
時間：113/03/13(三) 12:00-14:00
地點：國立臺北大學三峽校區社科院807教室
【講師簡介】
Jacob Reidhead，國立政治大學亞太研究英語博士學位學程助理教授，美國史丹佛大學社會學博士，曾任SMS Research的資料分析師。
【演講簡介】
Interest in local politics is on the rise, but sadly, innovations in theory and methods have not kept pace, argues British political scientist Charlie Jeffery (2010).
In the first half of my presentation, I will present a Networks and Organizations framework of local politics. Crossing the modes of actors and positions yields three types of networks: position-position networks, position-actor networks and actor-actor networks. In the real world, these correspond to organizational hierarchies, organizational rosters and conventional social networks. By linking these three networks, we can derive measures for several types of personalistic politics such as dual officeholding, career advancement, collusion, patron-client relationships and dynastic succession.
In the second half of the presentation, I will demonstrate how I am empirically implementing this framework to study local politics in South Korea and Taiwan. I will introduce the various sources of online and archival data used to structure the three basic networks. I am eager to receive feedback from the audience regarding the persuasiveness of these measures and methods as they are very much still in development.
