Doctoral Dissertation Research: Political Enfranchisement and Social Capital

博士论文研究：政治选举权与社会资本

• 批准号: 1227578
• 负责人: John List
• 金额: $ 4.68万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 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: 2012-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1227578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Enfranchisement

This award funds research that will experimentally test hypotheses from development and political economics related to social capital, political enfranchisement, and trust in government using the unique circumstances of a new democracy in Libya. The causal relationship between democracy and economic growth is hotly debated. While some argue there is a causal relationship between the two, others claim an underlying characteristic of a given society jointly determines both governance and economic growth. One candidate for such a characteristic is social capital. This project sheds light on this question by examining whether, once a democratic election takes place, the stock of social capital in a society can be affected by who wins in that election. The project uses innovative laboratory-style methods from experimental economics conducted in the field in a country that is engaged in free elections for the first time in many years.This research will help us to understand mechanisms that support free elections and political enfranchisement in a fragile democracy, and deepen our understanding of the relationship between governance and economic growth.

该奖项资助的研究将利用利比亚新民主的独特环境，实验检验与社会资本、政治选举权和对政府信任有关的发展和政治经济学假设。民主与经济增长之间的因果关系备受争议。虽然一些人认为两者之间存在因果关系，但另一些人则认为，特定社会的潜在特征共同决定了治理和经济增长。这种特征的一个候选是社会资本。这个项目通过研究一旦民主选举发生，谁在选举中获胜是否会影响一个社会的社会资本存量，从而阐明了这个问题。该项目采用实验经济学的创新实验室式方法，在一个多年来首次进行自由选举的国家进行实地研究。这项研究将帮助我们理解在一个脆弱的民主国家中支持自由选举和政治选举权的机制，并加深我们对治理与经济增长之间关系的理解。