KIM, YONG-HAK; PHD

                         THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1986
 
                         SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT (0700)
 

                         By linking the structural constraints and the intentionality of corporate actors, the study mathematically
                         formalizes the emergence of the network of political alliances of resource transactions among interest
                         groups, social movement organizations and government organizations in the national energy and health
                         policy domains. The mathematical models are based on the conception that the system of relations and
                         the outcomes of collective decisions are mutually integrated in that (1) the relations of resource
                         transactions among organizations arise because of their purposive action to pursue preferred policy
                         options, and (2) the event outcome (or decision-making establishing state policies) are the consequence
                         of the emerged relations. I revise and extend Coleman's mathematical model of collective action and
                         apply the revised models to eight selected controversial events in each policy domain. The dependency
                         model finds that a pair of health organizations is more likely to establish a channel of resource
                         deployment if the model predicts the presence of the relation between the pair and if members of the
                         pair have a common organizational type. Two models of organizational strategy, i.e., the resource
                         deployment model and the resource mobilization model, predicted accurately both the organizations'
                         control over events and the outcomes for every event. Business organizations in energy and
                         professional societies in health are the most influential in influencing collective decisions. The matching
                         of the interest to mobilize and the interest to deploy between a pair of organizations accounts for the
                         greatest portion of the variance of observed resource transactions. Overall, the estimated matrices of
                         effectiveness of government organizations support the idea that the resource flow from interest groups
                         to government organizations is the function of the latter's control over a set of events in which the former
                         are interested. The correct predictions of event outcomes suggest that the determinants of policy
                         making reside in the structure of the private-public interpenetration and that the pluralistic representation
                         of public interests by interest groups must be understood in the context of the multi-organizational fields
                         of resource transactions and multiple events. This finding has important implications for extending the
                         polity model of resource mobilization proposed by Charles Tilly.

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