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Philippine State Formation Mechanics
Prospects of Social Network Analysis in
Philippine Politics
POLSC 251: Seminar in Philippine Political Institutions
http://olimould.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/network-diagram-1.jp
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Political Networks
Overview
Introduction
Social Network Analysis Development and Concepts
Political Networks The Structural Perspective
Utilizing Social Network Analysis in Philippine
Political Analysis Philippine State Formation
Agpalos Pangulo Regime & Sidels Bossism
Prospects of Social Network Analysis
Conclusion
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Political Networks
All political analysts are
unwitting structuralists, because they define
social powerin relational terms
(Knoke, 1990)
Power is a relationship of one social actor to
another.
It is specific to a situation.
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Political Networks
Structural Perspective
Power as combinations of two dimensions:
Influence - Actor intentionally transmits information to
another that alters the latters actions from what wouldhave occurred without that information.
Domination - One actor controls the behavior of another
actor by offering or withholding some benefit or harm.
Basic units of any complex political system are notindividuals but positions or roles occupied by social
actors and the relations or connections between
these positions.
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Political Networks
Structural Perspective
Social structure - stable order or pattern of social
relations among positions.
Primary analytic focus is on the relational connections as
such and not on the attributes of the incumbent
individuals who occupy these positions.
Position and relationship are inseparable aspects of a
unitary structural phenomenon - the social network.
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Political Networks
Structural Perspective
Social network analysis:
Set of objects and set of relations among these objects.
By mathematically manipulating these network
representations, the structural analyst could uncover the
forms and processes of social and political behavior.
Structural perspective:
The structure of relations among actors and the location
of individual actors in the network have important
behavioral, perceptual and attitudinal consequences both
for the individual units and for the system as a whole
(Knoke and Kuklinski, 1982:13)
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Political Networks
Structural Perspective
Form and contents of relations among social
positions have significant consequences for the
formation of political attitudes and behaviors.
Explanation of the distribution of power among actors as
a function of the positions they occupy in one or more
networks.
A positions power emerges from its prominence innetworks where valued valued information and resources
are transferred.
Direct and indirect connections are considered.
Centrality and prestige.
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Political Networks
Structural Perspective
Analysis of power relations should not conflate
influence and domination linkages.
Communication is the main process.
Information exchanges empower an actor by giving it data
on conditions, threats and opportunities.
Flexibility and strength of structural analysis ofpower lie in its dualistic microanalysis and
macroanalysis capabilities.
E.g. Individual actors could be grouped together to form
another sociogram point as an organization.
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Philippine State Formation Mechanics
Prospects of Social Network Analysis inPhilippine Politics
POLSC 251: Seminar in Philippine Political Institutions
http://olimould.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/network-diagram-1.jp