Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Politics of School Reform: The Effect of Institutions and Political Behavior on the Making of Education Policy

博士论文研究：学校改革的政治：制度和政治行为对教育政策制定的影响

• 批准号: 9510489
• 负责人: Paul Peterson
• 金额: $ 0.54万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-07-15 至 1996-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9510489&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Politics; Reform

9510489 Peterson This dissertation research investigation addresses the role played by institutional arrangements, political behavior, and environmental constraints in explaining the diffusion and outputs of school reform efforts across 63 American cities. The key question of the research is: what conditions made school reform more likely during 1992-1995? The dependent variable is the incidence and out put of reform, as measured in scaled responses produced by interviewing seven knowledgeable sources in each sample city. This investigation is the first attempt to examine the fate of a number of reform policies across a large sample of cities. By creating an original data set measuring the appearance of five educational reforms across the U.S., the rate at which they were debated and implemented, the role of key hypothetical actors, and board behaviors, this study will be able to offer unprecedented insights into the determinants of school reform. Meshing this data with existent demographic, fiscal, and institutional data, as well as the results from two questionnaires, proved effective in the pilot study in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ***

本文的研究考察了制度安排、政治行为和环境约束在解释美国63个城市学校改革努力的扩散和产出方面所起的作用。研究的关键问题是：在1992-1995年间，什么样的条件使学校改革更有可能发生？因变量是改革的发生率和产出，通过采访每个样本城市的七个知识来源产生的比例反应来衡量。这项调查是第一次尝试在大量城市样本中考察一系列改革政策的命运。通过创建一个原始数据集来衡量美国五项教育改革的外观，讨论和实施的速度，关键假设参与者的作用以及董事会行为，本研究将能够为学校改革的决定因素提供前所未有的见解。将这些数据与现有的人口统计、财政和机构数据以及两份调查问卷的结果相结合，在路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日的试点研究中被证明是有效的。＊＊＊