Knowledge Regimes and Comparative Political Economy

知识制度和比较政治经济学

• 批准号: 0813633
• 负责人: John Campbell
• 金额: $ 11.75万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-15 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0813633&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Knowledge; Regimes; Comparative; Political; Economy

PI: John CampbellTitle: Knowledge Regimes and Comparative Political EconomySES-0813633Project AbstractThis project explores the process by which policy ideas are generated and contested. How are the policy research organizations (e.g., think tanks) that generate various policy ideas organized in different countries? How do they operate and try to influence public policy? How have they changed since the late 1980s? Have they become more or less similar over time? Answers to these questions will be developed through the analysis of in-depth interviews and documents collected from a sample of these organizations in four countries: Denmark, France, Germany, and the United States. In doing so, the research will also test two important theories of organizational and institutional change that have preoccupied social scientists for years. One suggests that groups of organizations in a field tend to converge over time on a common set of practices; the other suggests that they do not and that organizations tend to retain their uniqueness even as they change. Rarely have these theories been tested with qualitative data. Hence, this project offers a unique opportunity not only to determine the degree to which convergence in an organizational field has occurred, but also to identify the mechanisms that are involved. As a result, this research will have several broad impacts. First, it will help us better understand how organizational and institutional change occurs. Second, it will help policy research organizations better understand how their operations compare to their counterparts at home and abroad. Finally, it will offer new insights into an important but much neglected part of democratic policy-making?the process by which new policy ideas are generated in the first place.

主要研究者：John Campbell标题：知识体制与比较政治经济学SES-0813633项目摘要本项目探讨政策思想产生和争论的过程。 政策研究组织（例如，智囊团），产生各种政策的想法，在不同的国家组织？ 它们如何运作并试图影响公共政策？ 自20世纪80年代末以来，它们发生了怎样的变化？ 随着时间的推移，它们是否变得越来越相似？ 这些问题的答案将通过分析深入的访谈和从这些组织在四个国家的样本收集的文件：丹麦，法国，德国和美国。 在这样做的过程中，这项研究还将测试两个重要的组织和制度变革理论，这些理论多年来一直困扰着社会科学家。 一种观点认为，一个领域的组织群体往往会随着时间的推移而趋同于一套共同的做法;另一种观点认为，情况并非如此，各组织往往会在变化的同时保持其独特性。 这些理论很少得到定性数据的检验。 因此，该项目提供了一个独特的机会，不仅可以确定在组织领域中出现的趋同程度，而且还可以确定所涉及的机制。 因此，这项研究将产生广泛的影响。 首先，它将帮助我们更好地理解组织和制度变革是如何发生的。 其次，它将帮助政策研究机构更好地了解他们的业务与国内外同行的比较情况。 最后，它将为民主决策中一个重要但被忽视的部分提供新的见解？新的政策思想首先产生的过程。