Global connectivity and government capacity: social networks, order, change, and conflict
dc.contributor.advisor | Arquilla, John | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Camber, Warren, T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cunningham, Sean W. | |
dc.date | Jun-13 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-01T16:51:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-01T16:51:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-06 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/34651 | |
dc.description.abstract | Information and communication technologies (ICT), like all technologies, are catalysts for political change and potential conflict. The Internet effect continues to fuel the explosive growth of ICT, and has enduring implications. It has sparked the long fuse of an Information Revolutionand a Social Network Revolution. This revolutionary wave is fundamentally altering both the structure of institutional arrangements and the behavior of bureaucratic organizations by transforming traditional tactics for organizing, communicating, collaborating, and participating in the political system. Does the accelerated rate of systemic change caused by the Internet effect create social cohesion, or cleavages that may lead to increased conflict? The purpose of this study is to determine, by qualitative as well as quantitative means, whether a causal relationship exists between the degree a society is connected via social media networks (Internet and the World Wide Web [WWW]) and the institutional capacities of central governance. Blending theory with data, a statistical regression model is developed to evaluate the degree and measure the magnitude of this relationship. The findings gleaned from this analysis suggest that a conditional causal relationship does exist between social connectivity and state capacity. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://archive.org/details/globalconnectivi1094534651 | |
dc.publisher | Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. | en_US |
dc.title | Global connectivity and government capacity: social networks, order, change, and conflict | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Defense Analysis (DA) | |
dc.subject.author | Cleavages | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Conflict | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Culture | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Empirical Model | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Globalism | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Governance | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Industrialism | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Modernization | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Multivariate Linear Regression | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Ordinary Least-Square | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Panel- Corrected Standard Error | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Panel Data | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Political Change | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Social Connectivity | en_US |
dc.subject.author | State Capacity | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Statistical Model | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Transformation. | en_US |
dc.description.service | Major, United States Army | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | Master of Science | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | Master of Science in Defense Analysis | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.level | Masters | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.discipline | Defense Analysis | en_US |
dc.description.distributionstatement | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. |
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