| Base on the case study of a village in the southern region of Fujian, this dissertation explores the network of relationships which mobilized by the candidate In the process of village committee election. The study shown that the candidate which embedded in social networks, in order to win the competitive election, seeks the support of voters through his own direct relation or indirect relation of other people. By the proliferation of these two kinds of relationships, the candidate shapes a whole network of relationships which far beyond his own network. Base on the analysis of the candidate's mobilization network, to some extent, to some extent, we can say that the candidate's political campaign activities are embedded in networks of social relations. During the election campaign, the candidate and the in-betweens of connection through the transmission of information, influence, provision of credit and the establishment of identity to obtain the support of voters in the internal network of relationships. The way of mobilization in the internal network of relationships showed the form of integrated, rather than the single form. Meanwhile, the study applied the concept framework of social capital to analysis the network of relationships mobilized by the candidate in the level of individual actors. By unified the candidate's whole network of mobilization in the Linnan's social capital theory model, we found that the members of network including the occupants who occupied a relatively higher status and the occupants who occupied a bridge position which connected different relation. The occupants which embedded in the mobilization network of the candidate were filled in the precipitation of his own experience of the village life, only in the mobilization network of the candidate, they had become a simple symbol of the resources. With relation of the occupants, the candidate mobilized better social capital, and enhanced the effectiveness of the campaign action.
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