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

结社政治：美国的法律和权利、限制和资源的结构，1900 年 -1940 年

• 批准号: 9911428
• 负责人: Elisabeth Clemens
• 金额: $ 6.5万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9911428&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Politics; Association; Law; Structuring; Rights

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.

elisabeth S clemens这个项目研究1900年到1940年间国家法律的变化是如何影响非政府组织的。这个问题很重要，因为许多分析人士把这种联系作为促进或阻碍民主化、促进或阻碍福利和其他类型的社会变革的工具来研究。潜在协会所处的法律环境影响着它们的结构和使命，以及它们的成员组成。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。在此之后，PI将试图解释在相同环境中存在的组织类型之间的差异，以及组织如何寻求符合其法律气候。这项调查之所以有可能进行，是因为在调查期间，各州关于社团的法律有很大的差异。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，研究将调查特定法律与社团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，同时禁止其他组织形式的组合。其范围是雄心勃勃的，工作将有助于社会学研究的几个领域，如福利国家的发展和政治行动和市场力量的关系。本文的主要价值是历史价值和理论价值。在经验方面，它的主要贡献将是发展衡量管理社团存在和活动的政治-法律结构的方法。