Doctoral Dissertation Research in Sociology: Citizenship, Class, and Region in the Battle over the Income Tax

这是博士学位论文研究计划拨款项目下的一个奖项。它研究了1913年批准美国宪法第16修正案之前的辩论和政治潮流，该修正案授权征收所得税。该项目将主要利用历史文件来比较分析第16修正案在纽约州、威斯康星州和弗吉尼亚州的批准情况。将对结果进行分析，以阐明有关分配正义的思想在现实世界中是如何演变的。这项研究将有助于在实验社会心理学实验室之外越来越多地努力研究重要的价值观和社会过程。在这种情况下，所涉及的核心思想是分配正义的概念，而在1913年批准第16修正案之前的几十年中发生的关于公平概念的辩论将提供数据，以阐明这些概念是如何演变的。除了这项研究将获得的科学成果外，这一奖项还将对一位非常有前途的学生完成博士论文的研究提供实质性的帮助。从而为国家未来的科学人才和下一代社会学家的深入培养做出贡献。

This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research program. It is a study of the debates and political currents leading up to the ratification of the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, mandating an income tax, in 1913. The project will primarily make use of historical documents to comparatively analyze how the 16th Amendment was ratified in three states: New York, Wisconsin, and Virginia. Results will be analyzed in order to shed light on how ideas about distributive justice evolve in the real world. This research will contribute to the growing effort to study important values and social processes outside of the experimental social psychology laboratory. In this case the central ideas involved are conceptions of distributive justice, and the debates over ideas of fairness that occurred during the several decades prior to the ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913 will provide the data to illuminate how such conceptions evolve. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the future scientific manpower of the nation and the thorough training of the next generation of sociologists.