Exploring the Role of Adaptive Capacity on Democratic Performance (ERAC-DP): Governmental and Nonprofit Organizations in the Pandemic

本研究项目采用多种社会科学和比较分析的方法，研究COVID-19应对政策如何加剧不平等、促进民主治理和弱势群体的政治参与。该研究项目将回答四个问题：(i)在COVID-19大流行期间，弱势群体出现了哪些不平等现象？（ii）组织适应能力如何影响弱势群体的结果？（三）适应能力如何影响弱势群体的政策遵从性？（iv）哪些数字工具将促进（国内和国际）持续合作，以加强全球和地方行动，减少不平等，提高政策遵从性？该研究基于来自佐治亚州亚特兰大、加拿大蒙特利尔、英国曼彻斯特和波兰华沙的案例研究，并结合了几个社会科学领域的理论和丰富的数据收集和分析。这项研究项目的结果将有助于回答一些重要问题，如为什么旨在帮助所有人的政策对不同群体的影响不同，以及为什么不同群体的政策遵守情况可能不同。研究结果可以指导大流行和其他紧急情况期间的政策制定和实施。本研究采用加拿大、波兰、英国和美国四个国家的嵌入式案例研究，研究COVID-19大流行政策如何影响不平等，以及这反过来如何影响不同群体的政治行动主义和政策反应。具体而言，该项目将试图回答四个问题：(i) 2019冠状病毒病大流行期间出现了哪些不平等现象？（ii）适应能力如何影响弱势群体的结果？（iii）适应能力如何影响弱势群体对政策的遵守？（四）哪些数字工具将促进持续合作，以加强全球和地方行动，减少不平等，提高政策遵从性？这项研究将使用一种结合了几种社会和行为科学理论的方法来回答这些问题。除了学术研究之外，pi还建议让不同的政策制定者参与进来，以提高研究项目的政策影响。通过研究政策对不平等和政治参与的影响，本研究项目将对政策影响的社会和行为科学研究做出重大贡献。这个研究项目的研究成果将为减少不平等和加强政治参与的政策提供投入。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research project uses methods from several social sciences and comparative analysis to study how COVID-19 response policies can increase inequality, foster democratic governance, and political participation of vulnerable people. The research project will answer four questions: (i) what inequalities emerged for vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic? (ii) how did organizational adaptive capacities affect outcomes for vulnerable populations? (iii) how did adaptive capacities affect policy compliance of vulnerable populations? and (iv) what digital tools will facilitate a sustained collaboration (domestic and international) to enhance global and local action to reduce inequities and increase policy compliance? The study is based on case studies from Atlanta, GA, Montreal, Canada, Manchester, UK, and Warsaw Poland and uses a combination of theories from several social science fields and rich data collection and analyses. The results of this research project will help to answer important questions as to why groups are differentially affected by policies designed to help all and why policy compliance may differ across groups. The results could guide policy formulation and implementation during pandemics and other emergencies.This research uses embedded case studies in four countries---Canada, Poland, UK, and the US---to study how COVID-19 pandemic policies affected inequalities, and how this in turn affected political activism and policy responses of different groups. Specifically, the project will try to answer four questions: (i) what inequalities emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic? (ii) how did adaptive capacities affect outcomes for vulnerable populations? (iii) how did adaptive capacities affect policy compliance by vulnerable populations? and (iv) what digital tools will facilitate sustained collaboration to enhance global and local action to reduce inequities and increase policy compliance? The research will answer these questions using a methodology that combines theories from several social and behavioral sciences. In addition to academic research, the PIs propose to engage diverse policy makers to improve the policy impact of the research project. By addressing the impact of policies on inequality and political participation, this research project will make significant contributions to social and behavioral science research on policy impacts generally. The research results of this research project will provide inputs into policies to reduce inequalities as well as enhance political participation.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.