
Organization of Power
Unveiling power in politics
with organization theory
and data science
Lab Updates

New Publication in Asian Development and Education Studies
Collaborative Innovation This paper originated as a final project in our Text Analysis course. What began as a classroom exploration…

Three Taiwan datasets: Candidates, Party Leaders, Legislative Leaders
As part of our Taiwan Integrated Database, we have recently curated our first three datasets on Taiwan’s Candidates, Party Leaders,…

Three-year NSTC Grant to study North Korean Regional Economy
In June 2025, Taiwan’s NSTC awarded our lab a project grant to study North Korea’s regional economy! The three-year grant…
Lab Mission

Advance the Nets & Orgs Paradigm
- Operationalize the Networks and Organizations paradigm for empirical research.
- Apply this framework to theory-driven empirical research of political organizations.

Build Organizational Databases
- Build databases integrating org trees, rosters, social networks, and covariates.
- Extract curated datasets for our lab and external collaborators.

Unveil the Organization of Power in Asia
- Unveil political organization in democratic and autocratic polities across Asia
- Show how organization of power affects development, governance, and civic life.

Train Researchers in Social Data Science
- Create training materials for data science and social science methodology.
- Provide practical, hands-on instruction for students and researchers.
Newest Members

Yi-Chieh Chung
MA Diplomacy
National Chengchi University
114253020@g.nccu.edu.tw

Bonggyu Lee
PhD Asia-Pacific Studies
National Chengchi University
bonggubi88@gmail.com

陳明浩 Martin Chen
BS Computer Science
National Chengchi University
bb99102@gmail.com
