Insurgencies as Networks of Event Orderings

Breiger, Ronald L.; Smith, Julia Grace

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“…We wish to quantify the degree of overlap between these sequences or, equivalently, the underlying orders. Unlike other approaches to this problem, which have imported solutions taken from particular domains that do not necessarily have any relation to the structure of events, here we base our mathematization only on the logic of events that have relations of precedence (for a recent application using partial orders of events, see Breiger and Smith 2018).…”

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Some Methods for the Analysis of Event Sequence Data from Multiple Respondents

Martin

Murphy

2018

Sociological Methods & Research

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The analysis of sequence data poses a great challenge; existing methods for the comparison of sequences take what theoretical grounding they have from other fields (most importantly, genetics). We argue that set theory provides a way of establishing the relations between sequences that has a natural application to the case in which the sequences are orderings of a set of events, all compatible with an underlying partial order shared by multiple respondents. We also examine the possibility that observed differences in sequence data come from a stochastic process in which some events are poorly ordered because respondents cannot discriminate between them. We show that such methods shed light on several quantities that have been of interest to researchers, such as the degree of consensus within a group as to ideal sequences, the degree of respondent accuracy in reporting, and the degree to which plans and reality coincide.

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Some Methods for the Analysis of Event Sequence Data from Multiple Respondents

Martin

Murphy

2018

Sociological Methods & Research

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Theoretical Advances in Our Understanding of Network Effectiveness

Smith

2020

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

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Network effectiveness is heavily theorized in the public management and administration literatures. In this article, I synthesize the literature on network effectiveness and the role of organizational theory within this literature. The review illustrates a considerable amount of organization theorizing, which suggests that the subfield of organizational theory, while not always explicit, is very much alive and well. Next, I identify what the literature does well, areas for improvement, and recent work addressing those gaps. One such gap is the mismatch between the theory in its formulation and the methods used to test said theory. While theory is configurational, testing rarely makes use of configurational methods. Further, the majority of the literature treats networks as static despite widespread recognition that networks are in fact quite dynamic. Recent theoretical and methodological advancements have been made to address these shortcomings, but these efforts continue to be the aberration rather than the norm. Finally, I provide an example of one future direction for theorizing which builds upon recent advancements. More specifically, I provide two ideal type configurational paths to network effectiveness which account for one dynamic aspect of a network, namely the sequential introduction of actors into the network.

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The Structure of Protest Cycles: Inspiration and Bridging in South Korea’s Democracy Movement

Chang

Lee

2021

Social Forces

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Although the concept of protest cycles has received much attention in the collective action literature, its empirical operationalization remains relatively crude compared to the rich theoretical discussion. Reimagining social movements as populations of interlinked protests, we demonstrate the advantages of analyzing protest event networks with a novel dataset related to South Korea’s democracy movement. In our conceptualization, protest events play the role of network nodes and links were identified based on protesters citing prior events as sources of inspiration for mobilizing. Appropriating strategies for network analysis, we assess the types of events that were more likely to be cited as sources of inspiration and bridge otherwise disconnected events. Our analysis shows that protests that raised systemic versus local issues and events that were repressed by the state were more likely to occupy central positions in the democracy movement. By identifying the characteristics of events that contribute to movement inspiration and bridging, our novel approach to analyzing protest events sheds new light on dominant themes in social movement research.

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Insurgencies as Networks of Event Orderings

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Some Methods for the Analysis of Event Sequence Data from Multiple Respondents

Some Methods for the Analysis of Event Sequence Data from Multiple Respondents

Theoretical Advances in Our Understanding of Network Effectiveness

The Structure of Protest Cycles: Inspiration and Bridging in South Korea’s Democracy Movement

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