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

这是提高博士学位的赠款下的一个奖项 论文研究计划。 这是一个研究的辩论， 导致批准第16条的政治潮流 美国宪法修正案，强制征收所得税， 1913. 该项目将主要利用历史 比较分析第十六修正案是如何 在三个州获得批准：纽约、威斯康星州和弗吉尼亚州。 结果将进行分析，以阐明如何想法 在真实的世界中发展。 这项研究将有助于研究 实验之外的重要价值观和社会进程 社会心理学实验室 在这种情况下， 涉及到分配正义的概念， 在过去几十年中， 在1913年批准第16修正案之前， 提供数据来阐明这些概念是如何演变的。 在 除了通过研究取得的科学成果外， 该奖项将在物质上帮助一个非常有前途的学生， 完成博士研究 论文 因此 它 为国家未来的科学人才做出贡献， 对下一代社会学家的全面培训。

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 The project will primarily make use of historical documents to comparatively analyze how the 16th Amendment was ratified in three states: New York, Wisconsin, and Virginia.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.