Networks and Organizations
A graduate-level course introducing the major theoretical traditions in organization theory and their integration with network perspectives.
Mechanics of Social Theory
A graduate-level course introducing the key elements of social theories and the organization of academic writing including research proposals, prospectuses, dissertations and research articles.
Patronage and Clientelism
A graduate-level course surveying neopatrimonialism, clientelism, and crony capitalism in Asian democracies.
Sociology of Culture
A graduate-level course exploring culture from the sociological perspectives of social structure, cultural production, cultural consumption, power and identity.
Build Integrated Databases
We build integrated databases linking org trees, org rosters, social network data and more. From these, we query curated datasets for analysis.
Unveil Power in Asian Politics
We research political organization in Asia’s democratic and autocratic polities. Check out our research on Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea, and Kazakhstan.
Advance Nets & Orgs Paradigm
We operationalize the “Networks and Organizations” paradigm for empirical research and use this framework to advance theories of political organization.