论文标题
权力，偏爱和赞助：天主教主教，社交网络和前麦卡里克的事件
Power, Preferment, and Patronage: Catholic Bishops, Social Networks, and the Affair(s) of Ex-Cardinal McCarrick
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论文摘要
社交网络分析（SNA）对文化有强烈的启示，在这种文化中，传统上，惠顾，偏爱和互惠义务的影响很重要。因此，我们在这里认为，天主教会内的主教任命，文化和治理是SNA审讯的理想话题。我们分析了英格兰和威尔士天主教主教会议以及美国天主教主教会议的原始网络数据。值得注意的是，我们展示了网络知识的方法如何有助于理解发生性虐待的教会文化的紧急任务，并启用，忽略和掩盖了性虐待。特别提到的是西奥多·麦卡里克（Theodore McCarrick），前DC大主教“从文书国家解雇”涉及性犯罪。评论员自然使用诸如“ Protege”，“集团”，“网络”和“ Kingmaker”之类的术语时，在更广泛地讨论McCarrick事件和教会政治时：SNA旨在量化和解释的社会和政治生活的民间描述。
Social Network Analysis (SNA) has shed powerful light on cultures where the influence of patronage, preferment, and reciprocal obligations are traditionally important. Accordingly, we argue here that episcopal appointments, culture, and governance within the Catholic Church are ideal topics for SNA interrogation. We analyse original network data for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Significantly, we show how a network-informed approach may help with the urgent task of understanding the ecclesiastical cultures in which sexual abuse occurs, and/or is enabled, ignored, and covered up. Particular reference is made to Theodore McCarrick, the former DC Archbishop "dismissed from the clerical state" for sexual offences. Commentators naturally use terms like "protege", "clique", "network", and "kingmaker" when discussing both the McCarrick affair and church politics more generally: precisely such folk-descriptions of social and political life that SNA is designed to quantify and explain.
