Doctoral Dissertation Research: Mechanisms of Advancement in a Semi-Profession

博士论文研究：半职业的晋升机制

• 批准号: 1003809
• 负责人: Michael Hout
• 金额: $ 0.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1003809&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Mechanisms; Advancement

SES-1003809Michael HoutDaniel LaurisonUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe research studies the role professional campaign staffers and consultants play in American elections. Political operatives create the advertisements and flyers voters see, craft the speeches voters hear, script the phone calls and visits they receive, and determine which voters will be targeted with each of these communications. They shape candidates? messages, their self-presentations, and their daily schedules. Although candidates may have final say, the vast majority of campaign strategies are decided upon and implemented by campaign staff and consultants. And yet scholars know remarkably little about the people who play such an important role in shaping the American political landscape. Specifically, this project looks at the paths to entry and advancement within the political field. The first part of the research involves the creation and analysis of a database containing the career paths of all staffers and consultants who held decision-making responsibilities in Presidential or Senate campaigns between 2003 and 2008. The second part of the project is based on in-depth interviews with a subset of these political professionals in Washington, D.C. and around the country. The intellectual contributions of this dissertation is to understand an understudied area of sociological interest, political work world, that has been investigated neither by scholars of work and professions nor by political sociologistsBroader ImpactsThis research has the potential to have broader impacts through shedding light on the mechanisms that govern success in a field that has been historically white and male-dominated. Research findings will advance understanding of the processes American political campaigns within both the field of sociology as well as among the public more broadly.

这项研究研究了职业竞选工作人员和顾问在美国选举中所扮演的角色。政治操作人员制作选民看到的广告和传单，制作选民听到的演讲，编写他们收到的电话和访问，并确定哪些选民将成为这些通信的目标。他们塑造候选人？信息，他们的自我介绍，以及他们的日常安排。虽然候选人可能有最终决定权，但绝大多数竞选策略都是由竞选工作人员和顾问决定和执行的。然而，学者们对那些在塑造美国政治格局中扮演如此重要角色的人知之甚少。 具体来说，这个项目着眼于进入和政治领域内的进步路径。研究的第一部分涉及创建和分析一个数据库，其中包含2003年至2008年期间在总统或参议院竞选中担任决策责任的所有工作人员和顾问的职业道路。 该项目的第二部分是基于对华盛顿，华盛顿特区和全国各地的一部分政治专业人士的深入采访。 本论文的智力贡献是了解社会学的兴趣，政治工作的世界，已经调查的工作和专业的学者，也没有由政治社会学家更广泛的影响，这项研究有可能有更广泛的影响，通过阐明的机制，管理成功的一个领域，历史上一直是白色和男性主导。 研究结果将促进社会学领域以及更广泛的公众对美国政治运动过程的理解。