Employment Changes and Their Impact on Local Government

就业变化及其对地方政府的影响

• 批准号: 9211679
• 负责人: Lynn Staeheli
• 金额: $ 1.78万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-08-01 至 1994-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9211679&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Employment; Changes; Their; Impact; Local

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.

普通人的政治行动通常是基于地方的，它侧重于地方问题或地方对更高级别趋势的反应。政治激进主义的变化可能会对公共服务的提供以及政府的形式和角色等问题产生重要的后果。灵活的就业，如兼职工作、非轮班工作、临时合同、自雇和在家工作，可能会使工会和政党更难确定政治行动的共同基础，并通过区分日益不同的工资和薪酬结构，从而改变政治激进主义的模式。对政治激进主义的任何评估在很大程度上取决于公民对地方政治机构公开性的看法；如果这些机构被认为难以接近，政治激进主义的可能性就会降低。因此，地方政治机构的性质和观念干预了公民身份的重组。该项目将研究随着经济结构调整而增加的灵活就业形式如何影响公民的政治活动。它假设灵活的就业以及工资水平、工作保障和时间可获得性的变化导致对政治激进主义潜力的重新评估。在这一过程中，对当地政治结构的看法起到了中介变量的作用。通过对一些家庭成员的访谈来考察激进主义的趋势，以重建他们的就业和政治历史。为了确定如何最好地评估经济结构调整和政治激进主义之间的关系，将采用三种访谈战略和替代方法。这项妇女研究规划补助金将有助于填补关于家庭工作经验变化、当地政治机构观念变化以及公民政治行动主义的经验知识空白。这项研究将为有关重组、国家和公民身份的研究提供参考，并将促进我们对重组条件下地方民主结构的理解。