Collaborative Research: Southern Grassroots Party Activists, 2001

这项调查通过邮寄问卷对南部11个州的民主党和共和党的地方活动人士进行了调查。该项目补充了1991年进行的类似调查--南方草根积极分子项目。通过在2001年收集类似的数据，调查人员产生了一个对政党和南方政治感兴趣的学者非常感兴趣的数据集。调查人员负责：1)总体项目管理和协调；2)问卷的编制和制作；3)数据的编码和处理；4)编写编码簿和数据集以供传播；5)编辑三卷，代表该项目最新出版的工作。研究小组还包括11个州中每个州的州调查人员，他们：A)构建样本框架；B)对党内活动人士进行邮件调查；C)收集相关背景数据；D)分析数据并为编辑的三卷本贡献章节。这个项目的研究团队包括许多参与1991年研究的个人。虽然该项目将产生一个适合学术界各种用途的数据集，但有两个主要的理论问题指导着研究：a)调查党际和党内冲突的性质和关系；b)调查该地区双方的组织发展和变化。这两个问题都与1991年项目所做的工作有关，但这个项目对这两个领域的调查远远超出了原来的研究。能够在两个时间点比较活动家给了我们在各种研究问题上的相当大的筹码。这项研究和数据对其他对这个主题感兴趣的学者是有用的。

This investigation surveys local-level activists in the Democratic and Republican parties, in each of the eleven southern states, through a mail questionnaire. The project complements a similar survey, the Southern Grassroots Activists project conducted in 1991. By collecting similar data in 2001, the investigators produce a data set that is of great interest to scholars interested in political parties and southern politics.The research is organized in a manner similar to the 1991 project. The investigators are responsible for: 1) overall project management and coordination; 2) the construction and production of the questionnaire; 3) the coding and processing of the data; 4) preparation of the codebook and the data set for dissemination; and, 5) editing three volumes that represent the immediate published work from the project. The research team also includes state investigators in each of the eleven states who: A) construct the sampling frames; B) conduct the mail surveys of party activists; C) collect related contextual data; and, D) analyze the data and contribute chapters to the three edited volumes. The research team for this project includes many of the individuals who were involved in the 1991 study.While the project would produce a data set suitable for a variety of uses by the scholarly community, two major theoretical concerns guide the research: a) investigating the nature of and relationship between inter-party and intra-party conflict; and b) investigating the organizational development and change that has taken place in both parties in the region. Both concerns are related to the work done by the 1991 project, but this project goes well beyond the original study in its investigation of these two areas. Being able to compare activists at two points in time gives us substantial leverage over a variety of research questions.This study and the data are of use to other scholars interested in this topic.