Dissertation Research: The Contentious Politics of Reproductive Policy in Comparative and Historical Perspective, 1950-2000

美国、加拿大和英国都在1960年代末和1970年代初放宽了堕胎法，但在此过程中，这些国家制定了明显不同的堕胎政策。虽然这些政策随着时间的推移而改变，但差异仍然存在。美国各州的堕胎政策也有明显的差异。本博士论文研究项目将研究堕胎政策的性质和时机的决定因素。这包括对这三个国家和美国各州的变化进行分析。分析的基础上突出的理论模型和概念方案在跨国文献的社会政策。一个综合模型，这表明，政治行为者的政体的宪法结构的强烈约束。本文将采用比较和定量的方法对理论模型进行评价。首先，该项目将包括对美国、加拿大和英国国家一级重大政策事件的历史比较分析。其次，它将包含美国四个州的州一级堕胎政策制定的比较历史分析。第三，它将包含美国50个州堕胎政策的定量和事件历史分析。最后，运用质性比较分析法（QCA）对组合论证进行评价。

The United States, Canada and Great Britain all liberalized their abortion laws in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but, in the process, these countries established markedly different abortion policies. Though these policies have changed over time, the differences have persisted. Abortion policies have also varied markedly among American states. This doctoral dissertation research project will examine the determinants of the character and timing of abortion policies. This includes an analysis of variation across the three nations and across American states. The analyses are based on theoretical models and conceptual schemes prominent in the cross-national literature on social policy. A synthetic model is offered which suggests that political actors are strongly bounded by the constitutional structures of their polity. Several comparative and quantitative strategies will be employed to appraise the theoretical models. First, the project will include comparative historical analyses of major national-level policy episodes in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Second, it will contain comparative historical analyses of state-level abortion policy-making in four American states. Third, it will contain quantitative and event history analyses of abortion policies in the fifty American states. Finally, it will utilize Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to appraise combinational arguments.