Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Early EEOC, Legal Mobilization, and the New Administrative State

本项目分析了平等就业机会委员会（EEOC）的早期历史，以促进对法律的动员和国家能力的理解。这项研究审查了平等就业机会委员会在没有正式授权的情况下实现其目标的能力，以及非国家行为者在实施就业歧视法方面的作用，这反过来又会说明人手不足的政府机构如何能够成功地进行法律的和政治改革，以及法律的动员如何能够成为国家能力建设的工具。PI这样做，通过多站点的比较设计，创建早期EEOC诉讼efforts.Technical SummaryThe PI分析了平等就业机会委员会（EEOC）的早期历史，以促进法律的动员和国家能力的理解第一个地区法院级的数据库。PI贡献了三套学术文献：（1）行政法和国家能力;（2）法律的动员;（3）劳动法，政治和平等就业机会委员会的历史。这项研究审查了平等就业机会委员会在没有正式授权的情况下实现其目标的能力，以及非国家行为者在实施就业歧视法方面的作用，这反过来又会说明人手不足的政府机构如何能够成功地进行法律的和政治改革，以及法律的动员如何能够成为国家能力建设的工具。PI通过多站点比较设计来实现这一点，该设计创建了第一个地区法院一级的早期EEOC诉讼工作数据库。数据收集过程包括正式访谈、档案研究和调查研究。

General SummaryThis project analyzes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) early history in order to advance understanding of legal mobilization and state capacity. The study examines the EEOC's ability to implement its objectives without formal authority and the role of non-state actors in the implementation of employment discrimination law, which would in turn inform how understaffed government agencies can successfully shape legal and political reform and how legal mobilization can be a tool of state capacity building. The PI does this through a multi-site comparative design that creates the first district court-level database of early EEOC litigation efforts.Technical SummaryThe PI analyzes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) early history in order to advance understanding of legal mobilization and state capacity. The PI contributes to three sets of scholarly literature: (1) Administrative Law and State Capacity; (2) Legal Mobilization; and (3) Labor Law, Politics and the History of the EEOC. The study examines the EEOC's ability to implement its objectives without formal authority and the role of non-state actors in the implementation of employment discrimination law, which would in turn inform how understaffed government agencies can successfully shape legal and political reform and how legal mobilization can be a tool of state capacity building. The PI does this through a multi-site comparative design that creates the first district court-level database of early EEOC litigation efforts. The data collection process involves formal interviews, archival research, and survey research.