The Politics of Association: Law and the Structuring of Rights, Restraints, and Resources in the United States, 1900 -1940

摘要SES 9911428Elisabeth S Clemens该项目研究了大约1900年至1940年间州法律的变化如何影响非政府协会。这个问题很重要，因为许多分析家已经研究了诸如促进或阻碍民主化、促进或阻碍福利和其他类型社会变革的工具等协会。潜在协会存在的法律环境影响其结构和使命以及成员组成。确定法律结构并将其与组织类型联系起来是研究的第一步。接下来，PI 将试图解释相同环境中组织类型之间存在的差异，以及组织如何寻求符合其法律环境。由于在审查期间各州管理协会的法律存在巨大差异，因此调查得以进行。研究的早期部分将记录并试图解释管理正式协会的法律的变化。接下来，研究将调查具体法律与协会的形式和目的之间的联系，追踪它们如何鼓励某些组织形式的组合，同时禁止其他形式。 这项工作范围雄心勃勃，将为社会学研究的多个领域做出贡献，例如福利国家的发展以及政治行动与市场力量的关系。这部作品的主要价值在于历史和理论。从经验上看，它的主要贡献将是开发衡量管理协会存在和活动的政治法律结构的方法。

AbstractSES 9911428Elisabeth S ClemensThis project studies how changes in state law affect non-governmental associations from about 1900 to 1940. The issue is important because many analysts have studied such associations as vehicles to promote or retard democratization, and to promote or retard welfare and other types of social change. The legal climate in which potential associations exist affects their structure and mission, as well as composition of their membership. Identifying the legal structure and relating it to the types of organizations is the first step in the research. Following that, the PI will seek to explain variations that exist among organizational types in the same environments, and how the organizations seek to conform to their legal climates. The investigation is made possible by the considerable variation among states in laws governing associations during the period to be examined. An early part of the research will document and seek to explain variations in laws governing formal associations. Next, the research will investigate links between specific laws and the form and purpose of associations, tracing how they encourage some combinations of organizational forms while proscribing others. The scope is ambitious and the work will contribute to several areas of sociological research such as development of the welfare state and the relationships of political action and market forces. The main value of this work is historical and theoretical. Empirically, its main contribution will be to develop ways to measure political-legal structures governing the existence and activities of associations.