Collaborative Research: Civic Community and Civic Welfare: A Study Based on Economic Census

合作研究：公民社区与公民福利：基于经济普查的研究

• 批准号: 9910326
• 负责人: Michael Irwin
• 金额: $ 3.12万
• 依托单位: Duquesne University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9910326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Civic; Community; Welfare

The fundamental thesis of this project is that local capitalism and civic engagement are associated with beneficial civic welfare outcomes. Previous research has shown that a civic community perspective has substantial promise as an alternative to neoclassical theories of development and change. Still, much remains to be done to improve measures of the key concepts of local capitalism, civic engagement, and civic welfare. This project will use facilities at the Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Bureau of the Census. It will expand coverage from rural small towns to metropolitan areas, allow measures at multiple points in time, and explore the use of decennial Census household microdata in the construction of measures of civic welfare and civic engagement. We also propose to expand measures of civic welfare to encompass local civic infrastructure, public safety, and public health. This will be done with Economic Census microdata and Center data on local governments, as well as exploratory work with population Census long-form microdata. To test the basic thesis, the investigators will develop a database on more than 6,000 cities and towns in the U.S. Within selected larger metropolitan areas, they will conduct exploratory analyses at the Census tract level, identifying civic spaces within larger urban settings. Net of the effects of standard control variables, changes over time in measures of local capitalism and civic engagement (e.g., small, locally-oriented manufacturing establishments and retail establishments, family farms, civically-engaged religious denominations, and other charitable associations and organizations) are hypothesized to vary positively with changes in measures of civic welfare including lower infant mortality, higher income levels, less out-migration, more per capita expenditures on schools and libraries.

这个项目的基本论点是，地方资本主义和公民参与与有益的公民福利成果。先前的研究表明，公民社区的观点有很大的希望作为一种替代发展和变化的新古典主义理论。尽管如此，在改善地方资本主义、公民参与和公民福利等关键概念的衡量标准方面，仍有许多工作要做。该项目将使用美国人口普查局经济研究中心的设施。它将把覆盖范围从农村小城镇扩大到大都市地区，允许在多个时间点采取措施，并探索使用十年一次的人口普查家庭微观数据来制定公民福利和公民参与的措施。我们还建议扩大公民福利措施，以包括当地的公民基础设施、公共安全和公共卫生。这将通过经济普查微观数据和中心关于地方政府的数据以及人口普查长期微观数据的探索性工作来完成。为了验证基本论点，研究人员将开发一个关于美国6,000多个城市和城镇的数据库，在选定的大都市区内，他们将在人口普查区一级进行探索性分析，确定较大城市环境中的公民空间。扣除标准控制变量的影响，地方资本主义和公民参与措施随时间的变化（例如，据推测，小型的、面向当地的制造企业和零售企业、家庭农场、从事社会活动的宗教教派以及其他慈善协会和组织）随着社会福利措施的变化而发生积极变化，这些措施包括婴儿死亡率降低、收入水平提高、向外移民减少、学校和图书馆的人均支出增加。