Power Sharing, Political Goods Provision & Post-Conflict Stability

权力分享、政治物品供应

• 批准号: 1552619
• 负责人: Caroline Hartzell
• 金额: $ 44.78万
• 依托单位: Gettysburg College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-15 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1552619&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Power; Sharing; Political; Goods; Provision

General SummaryThis study seeks to better understand how power-sharing arrangements foster peace in the aftermath of civil war. Power-sharing institutions, rules to apportion political, military, economic, and territorial power among former belligerents, are an increasingly prevalent feature of civil war settlements. Academics have posited that power-sharing institutions secure the commitment of elites and the masses to stability by providing key political goods: security for both elites and masses, inclusion for elites, and basic services for the masses. In the absence of data appropriate for testing those hypotheses, however, previous research has been unable to identify the exact causal mechanisms through which power sharing fosters stability after civil war. This study addresses this gap in our understanding of power sharing by collecting micro-level data on elites' and masses' knowledge about and perceptions of the effects that these institutions have on the delivery of political goods. Data collection in the form of interviews and surveys will be conducted in the Mindanao region of the Philippines, where efforts at civil war resolution have at times featured the use of power-sharing mechanisms. The principal investigators will use these data to conduct statistical analyses of the effects that power sharing has on different groups' commitment to the peace. The information obtained from this study will serve to inform policymakers about the best practices for the design and implementation of power-sharing arrangements in the aftermath of civil war.Technical SummaryThis study seeks to better understand how power-sharing arrangements may foster peace in the aftermath of civil war. Powers sharing institutions, rules to apportion political, military, economic, and territorial power among former belligerents, are an increasingly prevalent feature of civil war settlements. This research will critically examine the hypothesis that power-sharing arrangements promote peace by providing citizens with important political goods such as security and access to basic services. This will be accomplished by focusing on the Mindanao region of the Philippines, where efforts at civil war resolution have at times featured the use of power-sharing mechanisms. Conducting open-ended interviews with key informants, semi-structured interviews with focus groups, surveys of the population in conflict-affected areas, and survey experiments, the principal investigators will gather micro-level data that make it possible to answer two key questions. First, do individuals residing in regions included in a post-civil war power-sharing arrangement have greater access to political goods relative to comparable populations excluded from power sharing? Second, is there a correlation between access to political goods and an individual's support for the post-conflict peace process?

一般摘要本研究旨在更好地了解权力分享安排如何在内战后促进和平。 权力分享机构，即在前交战方之间分配政治、军事、经济和领土权力的规则，是内战解决方案中日益普遍的特征。学者们认为，权力分享机构通过提供关键的政治商品来确保精英和大众对稳定的承诺：精英和大众的安全、精英的包容性以及大众的基本服务。然而，由于缺乏适合检验这些假设的数据，之前的研究无法确定权力共享促进内战后稳定的确切因果机制。这项研究通过收集微观层面的数据来解决我们对权力共享的理解上的差距，这些数据涉及精英和大众对这些机构对政治商品交付的影响的了解和看法。将在菲律宾棉兰老岛地区以访谈和调查的形式收集数据，该地区解决内战的努力有时会采用权力分享机制。 主要调查人员将利用这些数据对权力共享对不同群体和平承诺的影响进行统计分析。从这项研究中获得的信息将有助于决策者了解内战后权力共享安排的设计和实施的最佳实践。技术摘要本研究旨在更好地了解权力共享安排如何促进内战后的和平。权力共享机构、在前交战方之间分配政治、军事、经济和领土权力的规则，是内战解决方案日益普遍的特征。 这项研究将批判性地检验这样一个假设：权力分享安排通过为公民提供安全和获得基本服务等重要的政治利益来促进和平。这将通过重点关注菲律宾棉兰老地区来实现，该地区解决内战的努力有时以使用权力分享机制为特色。 主要调查人员将通过对关键知情人进行开放式访谈、对焦点小组进行半结构化访谈、对受冲突影响地区的人口进行调查以及调查实验，收集微观层面的数据，从而回答两个关键问题。首先，相对于被排除在权力分享之外的类似人口，居住在内战后权力分享安排所包括地区的个人是否有更多机会获得政治利益？其次，获得政治物品与个人对冲突后和平进程的支持之间是否存在相关性？