Political Homophily: The overlooked side of story in emergency management networks = Political Homophily: The overlooked side of story in emergency management networks

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

While the current field of emergency management has focused on implementationoriented arrangements among key stakeholders, few have systemically investigated the creation and development of interorganizational collaboration led by political actors especially after a catastrophic event. Following an Institutional collective Action framework, this research aims to examine to what extent homophily between political actors such as elected officials and council members at the local level affects patterns of interorganizational collaboration in emergency response. By utilizing Quadric Assignment Procedure logistic regression models with 2015 Seoul emergency management datasets, this research found evidence that political homophily has a positive effect on facilitating interorganizational collaboration regarding to emergency management. The analysis results show that a dyadic tie with political homophily boosts local responders forging ties with other agencies during emergencies. The findings imply that political solidarity formulated by mayors and council members can broaden the scope of interorganizational collaboration to other critical actors such as local agencies, private firms, and nonprofits by mitigating institutional collective action problems at the local level.