Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Communicative Citizenship and Participatory Democracy

博士论文改进补助金：沟通公民权和参与民主

• 批准号: 0922573
• 负责人: Nancy Postero
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0922573&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Communicative

University of California at San Diego graduate student, Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, under the guidance of Dr. Nancy G. Postero, will undertake research on participatory democracy. Her focus will be on why some instances of participatory democracy are more effective than others in distributing state resources among competing social classes and interest groups. Social science findings regarding the efficacy of participatory institutions are often inconsistent. To explain these inconsistencies, this research will explore the hypotheses, that 1) a political party's ideology of participatory democracy has an impact on the redistribution of state resources; and 2) different designs of participatory institutions produce disparate redistributive outcomes. The research will be conducted in Brazil, where several forms of participatory institutions are now mandatory. However, the municipalities implementing them are governed by political parties that disagree about the goals of participatory democracy, which allows for a comparative research design. The comparative fieldwork will be done in two districts in the Sao Paolo Municipal Area, which differ in their views of participation. The researcher will begin with a sociolinguistic analysis of the communicative interactions and discursive practices that take place at participatory meetings, where ideas of what constitutes a good citizen are developed as what the researcher terms "communicative citizenship." In addition to sociolinguistic analysis, the research will include direct and participant observation at meetings; analysis of policy documents, census information, and budget data; textual analysis of political tracts; interviews with residents of both districts; and a survey. Besides clarifying some of the contradictory findings of the participatory democracy literature, this study will provide further insight into the relationship between institutions, ideologies, and locally-situated understandings of citizenship and entitlements. Research findings can also aid policymakers and activists in promoting institutional reforms. Funding this research also contributes to the education of a social scientist.

加州大学圣地亚哥分校的研究生Ana Paula Pimentel Walker在Nancy G. Postero博士的指导下，将对参与式民主进行研究。她的重点将是为什么某些参与式民主实例比其他参与式民主在竞争社会阶层和利益集团之间分配国家资源方面更有效。有关参与机构疗效的社会科学发现通常不一致。为了解释这些不一致之处，这项研究将探讨以下假设，即1）政党的参与式民主意识形态会影响国家资源的重新分配； 2）参与性机构的不同设计产生不同的再分配结果。这项研究将在巴西进行，现在必须进行几种形式的参与机构。但是，实施它们的市政当局受到对参与式民主目标不同意的政党的管辖，这允许进行比较研究设计。比较实地调查将在圣保罗市区的两个地区进行，这在他们的参与观点上有所不同。研究人员将从参与会议上进行的交流互动和话语实践进行社会语言分析，在这种情况下，关于构成好公民的想法是研究者所说的“交流公民”。除了社会语言分析外，该研究还将包括会议上的直接和参与者观察；分析政策文件，人口普查信息和预算数据；政治领域的文字分析；对两个地区的居民进行采访；和调查。 除了阐明参与式民主文献的一些矛盾发现外，这项研究还将进一步了解机构，意识形态和当地对公民身份和权利的理解之间的关系。研究结果还可以帮助决策者和激进主义者促进机构改革。资助这项研究也有助于社会科学家的教育。