Change in Covert Social Movement Networks: The ‘Inner Circle’ of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Change in Covert Social Movement Networks: The ‘Inner Circle’ of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
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隐蔽社会运动网络的变化：爱尔兰临时共和军的“核心圈子”
DOI：
10.1080/14742837.2013.832622
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
N. Crossley
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作者：
Rachel Stevenson;N. Crossley
在本文中，我们有助于不断增长的机构的文学社会运动网络和不断增长的机构的文学网络的变化，通过探索模式和机制的网络内的“内圈”的临时爱尔兰共和军的变化。具体来说，我们关注的是1969年（它形成的时候）和1988年（我们能够收集到良好数据的最后一点）之间的时期。我们的主要目标是实质性的。我们想知道这个网络是如何随着时间而变化的。此外，然而，我们的分析确定了其他分析师可能在他们的网络中寻找的变化，并为那些像我们一样发现他们的网络不符合网络动态建模主流方法的假设的人提供了方法上的建议。然而，这份文件还有另一个层面。我们在研究一个隐蔽的社会运动网络。这是一种特殊类型的运动网络，其组织和动力学预测与其他运动网络不同。有些人认为，他们倾向于相对静止，因为他们内部对信任的需求是如此之大，当新的关系形成时，他们所保守的秘密的风险是如此之大，以至于他们的成员倾向于只在他们先前存在的关系池中招募，并积极寻求最大限度地减少招募和新关系的形成。我们的论文的目的之一是确定是否以及在多大程度上是这样的。
In this paper, we contribute to both the growing body of literature on social movement networks and the growing body of literature on change in networks by exploring patterns and mechanisms of change within the network of the ‘inner circle’ of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Specifically, we focus upon the period between 1969 (when it formed) and 1988 (the last point for which we have been able to gather good data). Our primary aims are substantive. We want to know how this network changed over time. In addition, however, our analysis identifies changes which other analysts might look for in their networks and offers methodological suggestions for those who, like us, find that their networks do not meet the assumptions of mainstream approaches to modelling network dynamics. There is a further dimension to the paper, however. We are studying a covert social movement network. This is a special type of movement network whose organisation and dynamics are predicted to vary from other movement networks. Some have suggested that they are inclined to be relatively static because the need for trust within them is so great and the risk to whatever they hold secret so considerable when new ties are formed that their members tend only to recruit within the pool of their pre-existing ties and actively seek to minimise recruitment and the formation of new ties. One of the aims of our paper was to determine whether and to what extent this is so.