Old Questions, New Techniques
A Research Note on the Computational Identification of Political Elites
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7987329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Hicks (0000-0001-8055-2582, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), Vincent Traag (0000-0003-3170-3879, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), Ridho Reinanda (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 386-401 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-1322 • E-ISSN: 1569-1330 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15691330-12341347 |
| OpenAlex | W1415116119 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper presents a new method of identifying a nation’s political elite using computational techniques on digitised newspaper articles. It begins by describing the three most widely used methods of identifying political elites: positional, decisional and reputational. It then introduces the “reported elite method”, exploring the kinds of elites it detects and how well it reflects the composition of political elites in our case study of Indonesia. Compared to the other existing methods, we find that our method casts a much wider net when searching for political elites, resulting in many more people from civil society, far fewer formal politicians, and challenging conventional notions of who is a political elite. The method has two major underlying assumptions: (1) the newspapers from which the texts are drawn are free and fairly representative and (2) political power can be inferred from frequent appearance in newspapers alongside other frequently appearing individuals in computational “communities” of political elite
Elite · Identification (biology · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Law · Social Media and Politics
Networks of Elite Structure and Decision Making
Networks of Collective Action
Surveying national elites in the Federal Republic of Germany
The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior
Community Power Structure. A Study of Decision Makers
New Challenges, New Elites? Changes in the Recruitment and Career Patterns of European Representative Elites
Beyond the Three Faces of Power
Power, Influence and Social Circles
Leaders and Ruling Elites
The Structure of a National Elite Network
Community Power Structure
Indonesia
Elite Integration in the United States and Australia
A Critique of the Ruling Elite Model
Ministerial and Parliamentary Elites in Multilevel Spain 1977-2009
Circulations and Qualities of Political Elites
Distinctly Different Everywhere
Associated Rivals
Transformations in the British Economic Elite
Historicizing the power of civil society
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |