Employment Changes and Their Impact on Local Government

普通人的政治行动通常是地方性的 它的重点是当地问题或当地对 更高层次的趋势。 政治活动的变化可能会 对提供公共服务等问题的重要影响 政府的形式和作用。 灵活就业，如 兼职工作，轮班工作，临时合同，自我， 就业和在家工作可能会改变政治模式， 通过使工会和政治更加困难， 各方确定政治行动的共同基础， 工资和报酬差别越来越大 结构. 对政治行动主义的任何评价都取决于 批判地看待公民对地方政府开放性的看法 政治机构;如果这些机构被视为 政治激进主义就不太可能了。 因此 地方政治机构的性质和看法 公民身份的重建。 该项目将研究 公民的政治活动如何受到 灵活的就业形式，伴随着经济 重组 它假设灵活就业和 工资水平、工作保障和时间可用性的变化导致 重新评估政治活动的潜力。 在 在这一过程中，对当地政治结构的看法， 中间变量 行动主义的趋势是通过审查 对家庭成员进行抽样访谈， 他们的工作和政治历史。 3面试 战略和替代方法技术将是 为了确定两者之间的关系， 经济结构调整和政治活动最好是 评估。 这项女性研究规划补助金将有助于填补一个空白， 关于工作经验变化的经验知识， 家庭、地方政治观念的变化 机构和公民的政治活动。 这项研究将为与重组有关的研究提供信息， 国家和公民身份，它将促进我们对 在结构调整条件下的地方民主结构。

Political action by ordinary people is typically locally based, and it focuses on local issues or on local responses to higher level trends. Changes in political activism can have important consequences for issues such as public service delivery and the form and role of government. Flexible employment such as part-time work, off-shift work, temporary contracts, self- employment, and homeworking may change patterns of political activism by making it more difficult for unions and political parties to identify the common basis for political action and by differentiating increasingly divergent wage and compensation structures. Any evaluation of political activism depends critically on citizen perception of the openness of local political institutions; if these institutions are perceived as inaccessible, political activism would be less likely. Thus, the nature and perception of local political institutions intervenes in the restructuring of citizenship. This project will examine how political activism by citizens is affected by the increase in flexible employment forms that have accompanied economic restructuring. It hypothesizes that flexible employment and changes in wage levels, job security, and time availability lead to re-evaluations of the potential of political activism. In this process, perception of the local political structure acts as an intervening variable. Trends in activism are examined through interviews with a sample of household members to reconstruct their employment and political histories. Three interviewing strategies and alternative methodological techniques will be employed in order to determine how the relationship between economic restructuring and political activism can best be assessed. This Research Planning Grant for Women will help fill a void in empirical knowledge about changes in the work experiences of households, changes in the perceptions of local political institutions, and political activism on the part of citizens. This study will inform research related to restructuring, the state, and citizenship, and it will advance our understanding of the fabric of local democracy under conditions of restructuring.