The Giving and Withdrawal of New Rights: A Natural Experiment In Legal Consciousness

新权利的给予和撤销：法律意识的自然实验

• 批准号: 0453080
• 负责人: Kimberly Richman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of San Francisco
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0453080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Giving; Withdrawal; New; Rights; Natural

The relationships between social institutions and the development of legal consciousness and mobilization are among the central concerns of sociolegal scholarship. This study takes advantage of a unique natural experiment to examine the ways in which legal consciousness -- including the orientation of citizens to the law and the invocation of laws and legal rights -- is affected by changes in state-level legal norms and institutions. The study will rely on systematic qualitative data analysis of interviews with respondents, using NVIVO software to isolate analytic themes and patterns of reasoning, as well as on quantitative analysis of survey data from the entire population of individuals affected by the legal changes in question in one major metropolitan area. The research will offer novel and important insights into the engagement of citizens with the law, not only revealing the perceived role of law according to the citizen being studied, but also whether and how likely they are to enact their rights or turn to the law to resolve their problems.

社会制度与法律意识和动员的发展之间的关系是社会法学研究的中心问题之一。本研究利用一个独特的自然实验来检验法律意识——包括公民对法律的取向、法律和合法权利的援引——是如何受到国家层面法律规范和制度变化的影响的。该研究将依赖于对受访者访谈的系统定性数据分析，使用NVIVO软件分离分析主题和推理模式，以及对一个主要大都市地区受法律变化影响的整个人口的调查数据进行定量分析。这项研究将为公民与法律的接触提供新颖而重要的见解，不仅揭示了被研究公民对法律的感知作用，而且还揭示了他们是否以及有多大可能行使自己的权利或求助于法律来解决他们的问题。