SGER: Support for Democracy in Thailand: Public Attitudes toward Democratic Process under the Constitution of 1997

SGER：对泰国民主的支持：公众对 1997 年宪法下民主进程的态度

• 批准号: 9800764
• 负责人: Robert Albritton
• 金额: $ 1.43万
• 依托单位: Northern Illinois University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-03-01 至 2001-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9800764&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Support; Democracy; Thailand; Public

This investigation allows the conduct of a national survey of voter characteristics during Thai parliamentary elections scheduled for May, 1998. The elections have been called with very limited lead time and, to date, no studies such as this exist at the national level. The timely announcement of scheduled elections represents a rare opportunity to examine voter attitudes in the context of a Thai election. These elections will be the first held under a new constitution, adopted September 27, 1997. This constitution makes significant changes in the system of elections and in the structures of representation in the Thai parliament. Thus, the proposed study will establish a baseline of attitudes toward democracy that will be highly important for future scholarship, as well as providing a benchmark for retrospective studies of the previous electoral system. The survey is conducted with the collaboration of four Thai universities, using a sampling framework developed by the principal investigator in an earlier study. Questions are designed to measure levels of political interest, political knowledge, political efficacy, and political culture. The study focuses on attitudes toward democratic institutions and rights under the new constitution as a basis for evaluating the status of Thai democracy. The dataset to be gathered should be of value to other scholars interested in the topic.

通过这项调查，可以在定于 1998 年 5 月举行的泰国议会选举期间对选民特征进行全国性调查。选举的准备时间非常有限，而且迄今为止，在国家层面尚无此类研究。 及时宣布预定的选举是在泰国选举背景下审视选民态度的难得机会。 这些选举将是根据 1997 年 9 月 27 日通过的新宪法进行的首次选举。该宪法对泰国议会的选举制度和代表结构进行了重大改变。 因此，拟议的研究将建立对民主态度的基线，这对于未来的学术研究非常重要，并为以前选举制度的回顾性研究提供基准。 该调查是与四所泰国大学合作进行的，使用了主要研究者在早期研究中开发的抽样框架。 问题旨在衡量政治兴趣、政治知识、政治效能和政治文化的水平。 该研究的重点是人们对新宪法规定的民主制度和权利的态度，以此作为评估泰国民主状况的基础。 要收集的数据集应该对对该主题感兴趣的其他学者有价值。