Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Franchise Extension and Politics of Redistribution in South Africa

政治学博士论文研究：南非的特许经营延伸和再分配政治

• 批准号: 9807528
• 负责人: Robert Bates
• 金额: $ 0.9万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-15 至 1999-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9807528&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Science

This doctoral dissertation research examines the impact changing electoral franchise rules for redistributive policy. The project uses a -natural experiment+ occurring in South Africa. In 1994 South Africa held its first non-racially based election. At that time previously disenfranchised Blacks and Asians were given the right to vote. These groups not only were prevented from voting in general elections, but were much poorer than enfranchised citizens. The research explores whether this large influx of disadvantaged voters led to policies that redistribute state resources to those voters. To test a well specified theoretical model, the researcher has assembled a large amount of fiscal data from South Africa both before and after the 1994 reforms. In addition, the researcher has collected voting and census data so as to assess the demand-side for redistributive policies.

这项博士学位论文研究研究了对重新分配政策的影响的影响。 该项目使用南非发生的 - 自然实验+。 1994年，南非举行了第一次非主义的选举。 当时，以前已将选举权的黑人和亚洲人被授予投票权。 这些群体不仅被阻止在大选中投票，而且比受人权的公民差得多。 该研究探讨了大量弱势选民是否导致政策将国家资源重新分配给这些选民。 为了测试特定的理论模型，研究人员在1994年改革之前和之后都汇集了大量南非的财政数据。 此外，研究人员还收集了投票和人口普查数据，以评估重新分配政策的需求端。