Doctoral Dissertation Research: Residents' Interactions with the State

该研究项目旨在更好地了解权力分享与目标社区对国家的归属感之间的联系。政治学的传统智慧表明，权力分享制度可以在某些目标群体（如少数民族公民）中培养对国家的忠诚。然而，现有的研究发现了非决定性的证据。此外，现有的研究尚未确定权力分享与国家依附之间的联系机制。本研究旨在弥补这些差距。本报告根据住户调查的原始数据集和对当地居民和公务员的定性访谈，审查了地方政府一级的权力分享情况。它对文学的贡献在于仔细追踪和阐明了目标公民与国家通过其代理人（公务员）之间的互动，以及这些互动如何塑造公民对政府的看法和依恋。这项工作将告知决策者，在公民与国家的地方代理人之间的微观互动中提供公共服务的方式对一些居民看待政府机构的方式产生了重大影响。本研究试图回答以下问题：（1）是什么塑造了少数民族公民的国家归属感？以及（2）为什么国家在赢得某些少数民族群体成员的归属感方面比其他群体更成功？为了回答这些问题，它采取了多种方法，并使用了原始数据集，包括住户调查数据和少数民族群体在各级政府中的实际代表水平。它提议通过回归分析来检验一套假设，并以现有的关于权力分享的文献为基础，但采取了一种新的办法，侧重于地方一级而不是国家一级政府的权力分享。从经验上讲，它远远超出了显示相关和独立变量之间的相关性;报告估计了在国家、地区和国家一级与少数民族分享权力的影响，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。

This research project seeks to better understand the link between power-sharing and target-communities' sense of attachment to the state. Conventional wisdom in political science indicates that power-sharing institutions can foster loyalty to the state among certain target groups, such as ethnic minority citizens. However, existing studies have found inconclusive evidence. Additionally, existing research has yet to identify mechanisms linking power-sharing and attachment to the state. This research seeks to address these gaps. Based on an original dataset of household survey and qualitative interviews with local residents and civil servants, it examines power-sharing at the local level of government. Its contribution to the literature lies in a careful tracing and elucidation of the interactions between the target citizens and the state via its agents (the civil servants) and how these interactions shape citizens' view of and attachment to government. This work will inform policymakers that the way in which public service is delivered in a micro-level interaction between citizens and local agents of the state has consequential implications for the way some residents view government institutions. This research project seeks to answer to the following questions: (1) what shapes ethnic minority citizens' sense of attachment to the state?, and (2) why has the state been more successful in winning over a sense of attachment from members of some ethnic minority groups than other groups? To answer these questions, it takes a multi-method approach and uses an original dataset, consisting of household survey data and ethnic minority groups' actual level of representation at various levels of government. It proposes to test a set of hypotheses through regression analysis, and builds on existing literature on power-sharing, but takes a novel approach that focuses on power-sharing at the local -- rather than national -- level of government. Empirically, it goes well beyond showing correlation between the dependent and independent variables of interest; it estimates the effect of power-sharing with ethnic minorities at the national, regional, and local levels of government on their attachment to the state and addresses why and how the effects occur.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.