Collaborative Research: Social Movements and Policy Impact

合作研究：社会运动和政策影响

• 批准号: 1247321
• 负责人: Michael Lewis
• 金额: $ 2.84万
• 依托单位: Christopher Newport 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: 2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1247321&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Social; Movements; Policy

How do social movements build broad popular support and secure sweeping policy changes? This study focuses on demographic, economic, and institutional factors, as well as movement-specific organizational dynamics, to examine under which conditions movement support thrives and results in policy changes. Moreover, this study examines whether movement support and policies diffuse across neighboring states and counties, and how these trends shape one another. As a case in point, this project focuses on the U.S. Prohibition movement, which was one of the largest, longest-lasting, and most successful movements in U.S. history.The analysis involves an original dataset that contains information about the legal status of prohibition at the county and state level between 1890 and 1919, the year the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was enacted. The dataset includes measures regarding population change, urbanization, economic trends, and interest groups. In addition, the dataset incorporates information from archival materials regarding relevant social movement organizations and activity, electoral context, and media communication that may have shaped movement growth and success. These data allow us to examine the organization and outcomes of the movement both across space and at the state and local level.This project provides training and research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students at two institutions. Undergraduate research assitants at Christopher Newport University, primarily a teaching college, will be trained in data collection and coding. At UNC, graduate student training will revolve around systematic data collection, coding, and spatial modeling. In addition, the project will result in a large, publically available dataset of use to social scientists and historians. Findings from this study may be of interest to multiple stakeholders, such as legal experts, non-profit organizations, policy makers, and the general public, in addition to an interdisciplinary group of researchers.

社会运动如何建立广泛的民众支持，并确保全面的政策变化？这项研究侧重于人口、经济和制度因素，以及特定于流动的组织动态，以考察在什么条件下流动支持蓬勃发展并导致政策变化。此外，这项研究还考察了运动支持和政策是否在邻近的州和县之间扩散，以及这些趋势如何相互影响。作为一个恰当的例子，该项目关注美国禁酒令运动，这是美国历史上规模最大、持续时间最长、最成功的运动之一。分析涉及一个原始数据集，其中包含1890年至1919年美国宪法第18修正案颁布期间县和州一级禁酒令的法律地位信息。该数据集包括有关人口变化、城市化、经济趋势和利益集团的衡量标准。此外，该数据集还纳入了有关相关社会运动组织和活动、选举背景和媒体传播的档案材料中的信息，这些信息可能影响了运动的发展和成功。这些数据使我们能够检查跨空间以及在州和地方一级的运动的组织和结果。该项目为两个机构的研究生和本科生提供培训和研究机会。克里斯托弗纽波特大学(Christopher Newport University)的本科生研究助理将接受数据收集和编码方面的培训。在北卡罗来纳大学，研究生培训将围绕系统的数据收集、编码和空间建模展开。此外，该项目将产生一个可供社会科学家和历史学家使用的大型、公开的数据集。除了一个跨学科的研究小组外，这项研究的结果可能会引起多个利益攸关方的兴趣，如法律专家、非营利组织、政策制定者和普通公众。