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.

该项目的基本论点是，地方资本主义和公民参与与有益的公民福利成果有关。先前的研究表明，公民社区的观点具有实质性的希望，可以替代发展和变革的新古典理论。尽管如此，要改善当地资本主义，公民参与和公民福利的关键概念的衡量措施仍有很多待努力。该项目将在美国人口普查局使用经济研究中心的设施。它将扩大从农村小镇到大都市地区的覆盖范围，允许在多个时间点采取措施，并探索在建立公民福利和公民参与度措施中使用十年级人口普查家用微型数据。我们还建议扩大公民福利的措施，以涵盖当地的公民基础设施，公共安全和公共卫生。这将通过经济人口普查微数据和中心数据进行，以及与人口普查长期微型数据进行探索性工作。为了测试基本论文，调查人员将在选定的较大大都市地区在美国的6,000多个城镇上开发一个数据库，他们将在人口普查水平进行探索性分析，从而在较大的城市环境中识别公民空间。标准控制变量的效果，当地资本主义和公民参与度的措施随着时间的变化（例如，小型，面向本地的制造业机构和零售机构，家庭农场，家庭农场，公民参与的宗教教派以及其他慈善协会和组织的较高较高的公民级别的变化，包括公民级别的变化，包括较高的公民范围，较高的公民范围的变化，包括较高的公民范围，包括公民范围的较高范围学校和图书馆的自会支出。