Doctoral Dissertation Research: Bureaucratic Decisionmaking Concerning Families and Social Services

博士论文研究：有关家庭和社会服务的官僚决策

• 批准号: 1323916
• 负责人: Karin Martin
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1323916&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Bureaucratic; Decisionmaking

Bureaucratic intermediaries sometimes turn to the state to mobilize legal action on behalf of other people in a non-criminal context. This asks how and under what conditions, state workers decide to go to the legal system instead of the social service system in their casework? Based on in-depth interviews with state workers in multiple locales, this study examines how workers decide to guide families through state processes. The research design pays particular attention to how decisions are made in the context of tools designed to guide action in casework. This work brings together the concept of legal mobilization and concepts concerning the significance of quantification in state decisionmaking, the process by which numbers come to define outcomes and determine policy in order to produce new knowledge about socio-legal decision-making. This research seeks to inform policy and practice and more broadly examines the policy implications of protocols that rely on actuarial risk models to standardize complex decisions and their outcomes. Research in this area has the potential to generate findings that will be of interest to scholars across a wide range of disciplines by connecting work on law and society, intervention research, social service systems, and the use of actuarial risk models to one another. Understanding the meaning-making process for these decisions is critical for clarifying how important policy debates about the utility of different approaches to social problems play out on the ground. Because this project will be working with state decisionmakers, it will inform policy by returning the outcomes of the research to policymakers and caseworkers. In addition, it will contribute to training in social science methods for both undergraduates and a graduate student.

官僚中间人有时会求助于国家，在非犯罪背景下代表其他人采取法律的行动。这就提出了一个问题，即国家工作人员如何以及在什么条件下决定在他们的个案工作中求助于法律的系统而不是社会服务系统？基于对多个地区的国家工作人员的深入访谈，本研究探讨了工人如何决定通过国家程序指导家庭。研究设计特别注意如何在旨在指导个案工作行动的工具的背景下作出决定。这项工作汇集了法律的动员的概念和有关量化的国家决策的意义的概念，这个过程中，数字来定义结果和决定政策，以产生新的知识，社会法律的决策。这项研究旨在为政策和实践提供信息，并更广泛地研究依赖精算风险模型来标准化复杂决策及其结果的协议的政策含义。 在这一领域的研究有可能产生的结果，将感兴趣的学者在广泛的学科，通过连接工作的法律和社会，干预研究，社会服务系统，并使用精算风险模型彼此。理解这些决策的意义形成过程对于澄清关于不同社会问题解决方法的效用的政策辩论在实地发挥的重要性至关重要。由于该项目将与国家决策者合作，它将通过将研究结果返回给政策制定者和个案工作者来为政策提供信息。 此外，它将有助于对本科生和研究生进行社会科学方法的培训。