The Volunteer or Resist: Case Studies in Contingent Consent

自愿或抵抗：或有同意的案例研究

• 批准号: 9111050
• 负责人: Margaret Levi
• 金额: $ 4.5万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-07-15 至 1992-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9111050&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Volunteer; Resist; Case; Studies; Contingent

Voluntary compliance by citizens with the laws and policies of the nation is fundamental to the stable functioning of democratic society. Although compliance can be produced in the short run by force, theory maintains that in the long run compliance must be voluntary if democratic institutions are to survive. This study examines the nature, extent, and determinants of voluntary or contingent compliance by comparing decisions to volunteer for military service with decisions to resistance military conscription. Two critical cases will be examined, the Irish in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th century and the French Canadians during this century. These cases will be used to test the hypothesis that voluntary compliance is possible only when institutional arrangements exists that provide information to the public so that government policies are perceived as fair and other citizens are perceived as doing their fair share. When completed this study will enhance our understanding of the circumstances under which citizens will voluntarily comply with government laws and policies. The findings should have implications not only for contemporary democracies such as the United States but for the many nations in Eastern Europe and the third world that are struggling to establish stable democratic rule.

公民自愿遵守国家的法律和政策是民主社会稳定运转的根本。虽然短期内可以通过武力迫使人们服从，但理论认为，如果民主制度要生存下去，从长远来看，服从必须是自愿的。本研究通过比较自愿服兵役的决定和抵制征兵的决定来检验自愿或偶然服从的性质、程度和决定因素。我们将研究两个关键的案例，19世纪末和20世纪初在英国的爱尔兰人，以及本世纪的法裔加拿大人。这些案例将被用来检验这样一种假设，即只有在存在向公众提供信息的制度安排，从而使政府政策被认为是公平的、其他公民被认为是公平的情况下，才有可能自愿遵守。这项研究完成后，将加深我们对公民自愿遵守政府法律和政策的情况的了解。这些发现不仅对美国等当代民主国家有启示意义，而且对东欧和第三世界的许多国家也有启示意义，这些国家正在努力建立稳定的民主统治。