Doctoral Dissertation Research: Alternative constructions of authority in establishing institutions

博士论文研究：建立机构时权力的替代建构

• 批准号: 1423602
• 负责人: Calvin Morrill
• 金额: $ 1.36万
• 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: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-15 至 2016-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1423602&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Alternative; constructions

Building on previous research that examines the interpretation and construction of law in organizational contexts, this project evaluates the hypothesis that relevant law both shapes how actors view authorization of new forms of organization under law, and how law in turn is shaped by encounters with alternative understandings regarding the role of locally significant institutions' understandings emanating from practice, the market, or elsewhere- that inform the bureaucratic authorization process. The project will take the authorization of charter schools, significant social institutions, as the site for analysis of the reciprocal shaping of law and organizations. Although there exists a well-developed literature on the performance and place of charter schools within market-based education reforms, there have been few empirical studies of how the parties relevant to charter governance encounter, invoke, and use the law in the vital moments of school authorization, renewal, and closure. The project will integrate analysis of the sociolegal dimensions of organizational authorization and revocation under law with mapping of relevant organizations. The study uses a multi-method approach with two phases: 1) quantitative analysis of the current and historical population of relevant organizations to reveal patterns and types of establishment, challenged or denied renewal, closure, and legal appeal, with a focus on the participation and significance of legal professionals, and 2) qualitative case studies of specific authorization actions, including analysis of charter petitions and authorization documents and in-depth interviews of the parties to charter authorization. To the field of education research, this project brings needed sociolegal attention to law within educational organizations, spaces characterized by the retention of public accountability in the face of increasing privatization. By focusing on the ways actors invoke, make use of, and extend the law in the processes of charter school authorization, this study will have important implications for charter operators, the bodies legally tasked with charter oversight, and for policymakers as they evaluate the place of charter schools within educational reform. The project will also train students in methods in the social sciences.

基于先前研究组织背景下法律的解释和建构的研究，本项目评估了这样一个假设：相关法律既塑造了行为者如何看待法律下新组织形式的授权，又塑造了法律如何通过与来自实践、市场或其他地方的当地重要机构的作用的另类理解的相遇而形成——这些理解为官僚授权过程提供了信息。该项目将以特许学校、重要社会机构的授权作为分析法律和组织相互塑造的场所。 尽管关于特许学校在市场化教育改革中的表现和地位的文献已有丰富的文献，但对于特许治理相关各方如何在学校授权、更新和关闭的关键时刻遭遇、援引和使用法律的实证研究却很少。该项目将对法律规定的组织授权和撤销的社会法律层面进行分析，并绘制相关组织的地图。 该研究采用多方法方法，分两个阶段：1）对相关组织当前和历史的人口进行定量分析，揭示设立、受到质疑或拒绝的续展、关闭和法律上诉的模式和类型，重点关注法律专业人员的参与和意义；2）对具体授权行动的定性案例研究，包括对章程申请和授权文件的分析以及对章程授权各方的深入访谈。在教育研究领域，该项目为教育组织内部的法律带来了必要的社会法律关注，这些空间的特点是在日益私有化的情况下保留公共责任。通过关注参与者在特许学校授权过程中援引、利用和扩展法律的方式，本研究将对特许经营者、依法负责特许监督的机构以及政策制定者评估特许学校在教育改革中的地位产生重要影响。该项目还将对学生进行社会科学方法方面的培训。