Doctoral Dissertation Research: Regions, Contexts and Political Changes in Italy, 1989-1996

Shin，Michael U.来自科罗拉多，博尔德 这一建议使用地理的视角来考察意大利中部政治态度和行为的性质、形成和继承。 重点是意大利左翼的两个主要政党，以及在地方内和地方之间发生的众多社会，经济和政治过程和互动如何影响态度和行为。 要解决的主要问题是什么样的政治和社会机制和过程背后的概念的邻里效应和强迫场偏差。 该研究将开发一个方法框架，用于识别和评估上下文效果。 这项研究将利用档案人口普查和选举数据，以评估主要的空间影响的行为。 聚合统计分析和回归建模将被用来检查存在于公社内部和之间的空间关系，沿着每个公社的选民的属性，以了解在意大利中部的政治支持。 将在20至25个社区进行调查和访谈，以获得地方一级的社会进程和对政治行为的影响的比较。这项工作将有助于通过确定重要的有影响力的社会过程的背景效应与政治行为的理论。 此外，它还将提出一种方法，用以检测、查明和评估这些影响，并可在其他地方推广。

Shin, Michael U. of Colorado, Boulder This proposal uses a geographic perspective to examine the nature, formation and succession of political attitudes and behavior in central Italy. The focus is on two major parties of the Italian left and how contextual effects or the numerous social, economic and political processes and interactions occurring within and between places influence attitudes and behavior. The major question to be addressed is what political and social mechanisms and processes lie behind the concepts of neighborhood effect and forced field bias. The research will develop a methodological framework for identifying and evaluating contextual effects. The study will utilize archival census and election data to assess major spatial effects in behavior. Both aggregate statistical analysis and regression modeling will be used to examine the spatial relations that exist within and between communes, along with the attributes of the voters of each commune, to understand political support in central Italy. Surveys and interviews in 20 to 25 communes will be undertaken to obtain local-level comparisons of social processes and influences on political behavior. The work will contribute to a theory of contextual effects with respect to political behavior by identifying important influential social processes. In addition it will present a methodology that detects, identifies and evaluates such effects and which can be replicated elsewhere.