WORKSHOP: New Perspectives on Intractable Problems: Informal Institutions as Policy Responses to Global Grand Challenges -Spring

研讨会：棘手问题的新视角：非正式制度作为应对全球重大挑战的政策 - 春季

• 批准号: 1144538
• 负责人: Sirje Weldon
• 金额: $ 3.75万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2013-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1144538&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; New; Perspectives; Intractable; Problems

This workshop at Purdue University draws together a global group of interdisciplinary scholars who, together with Purdue faculty, offer analyses of a series of pressing global challenges. The workshop focuses on finding new perspectives on seemingly "intractable" global policy problems by examining a cutting edge area of research in the social sciences: the role of social norms, considered as a kind of informal institution, in shaping policy design, adoption, and implementation. The workshop aims to apply these theoretical insights on multipe difficult problems that have faced policy makers internationally. The workshop involves a series of substantive issue panels focusing on the actual and/or potential role of informal institutions in offering solutions. It also includes an intergrative, cross-issue panel drawing out broader lessons about informal institutions as they relate to multiple diverse issues. The presentations and broader conclusions of this work will be disseminated in both scholarly and non-scholarly outlets.With regards to intellectual merit, informal institutions (or norms) are increasingly recognized as vital determinants of human behavior in multiple contexts and disciplines. Where simpler models of rationality once dominated our understanding of human behavior, more complicated models emphasizing the influence of norms are now recognized as playing a critical, but poorly understood role. While much progress has been made in the past decade in studying these informal institutions in multiple disciplines and as they operate in many different contexts, the intellectual challenges of understanding the impact of these norms remain daunting and the integration of this work remains limited. By convening this interdisciplinary, cross-national group of scholars, the organizers aim to contribute to the understanding of solutions to policy challenges as well as to advance theoretical understanding of the ways that informal institutions and social norms affect global problems.With regards to broader impacts, the workshop will offer new solutions to serious problems, promote the professional and intellectual development of graduate students working on vital scientific questions that affect serious policy problems, and build international, interdisciplinary networks and partnerships that include scholars and students from underrepresented gender, racial, and geographic groups.

普渡大学的这个研讨会汇集了全球一批跨学科学者，他们与普渡大学的教师一起，提供了一系列紧迫的全球挑战的分析。 研讨会的重点是通过研究社会科学研究的前沿领域，寻找看似“棘手”的全球政策问题的新视角：社会规范的作用，被认为是一种非正式的制度，在塑造政策设计，采用和实施。 该研讨会旨在将这些理论见解应用于国际决策者面临的多重难题。 讲习班包括一系列实质性问题小组讨论，重点是非正式机构在提供解决办法方面的实际和/或潜在作用。 它还包括一个综合性的跨问题小组，就非正式机构与多种不同问题的关系总结更广泛的经验教训。 关于知识价值，非正式制度（或规范）越来越被认为是多种背景和学科中人类行为的重要决定因素。 简单的理性模型曾经主导着我们对人类行为的理解，而强调规范影响的更复杂的模型现在被认为起着关键的作用，但人们对此知之甚少。 虽然过去十年在多学科研究这些非正式机构方面取得了很大进展，因为它们在许多不同的背景下运作，但理解这些规范的影响仍然是一项艰巨的智力挑战，这项工作的整合仍然有限。 通过召集这一跨学科、跨国家的学者团体，组织者旨在促进对政策挑战解决方案的理解，以及促进对非正式制度和社会规范影响全球问题的方式的理论理解。关于更广泛的影响，研讨会将为严重问题提供新的解决方案，促进研究生的专业和智力发展，研究影响严重政策问题的重要科学问题，并建立国际跨学科网络和伙伴关系，其中包括代表性不足的性别的学者和学生，种族和地理群体。