CAREER: We Dare Defend Our Rights: The Political Use of Law in the Enforcement of Voting Rights

职业：我们敢于捍卫我们的权利：法律在执行投票权中的政治运用

• 批准号: 2231729
• 负责人: Brandon Davis
• 金额: $ 48.33万
• 依托单位: Tulane University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2231729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Dare; Defend; Our; Rights

Recent elections have shown that political organizations still matter. The Civil and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960’s made racially exclusionary practices illegal; nevertheless, they did not automatically enforce rights. Whites subsequently adapted and deployed new methods of political exclusion. The contemporary social and political context is different, but the ambiguity and indeterminacy of voting rights are not. State voter ID laws, limits on early voting, restrictions on registration, voter roll purges, disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering have become ordinary yet systemic barriers to minority participation. Voting rights are again being challenged and new de jure and de facto voter suppression techniques are again on the rise. Yet so too are the number of political organizations attempting to build, sustain, and employ the strategic capacity necessary for successful legal mobilization. Understanding how the Alabama Democratic Conference developed, sustained, and employed statewide strategic capacity and effectively capitalized on the support structure for legal mobilization for over twenty years will inform our understanding of social movement theory and provide insights that can be adapted to fit the needs of rights advocacy groups across the United States and in other western-style democracies. This research project will create a repository of research materials on minority political organizations and their legal campaigns. A short documentary will be created and disseminated to a wide audience, from local to national civic and political organizations and from secondary schools to graduate seminars. Lastly, this research project will incorporate underrepresented students at all stages of the research, increasing their sense of belonging, which is highly correlated with academic outcomes, and imparting research and job readiness skills.This CAREER award focuses on collecting and analyzing data on how a minority political organization sustained a statewide legal campaign for over twenty years (1965-1989) culminating in the most successful political usage of law to enforce voting rights in American history. To guide examination of the ADC, this project relies on prior social movement research under two theoretical headings: the support structure for legal mobilization and strategic capacity. This research project will employ grounded theory, an interpretative analytic approach, and snowball sampling as a complimentary research strategy. This project will provide insight into unresolved questions about how different elements of the support structure for legal mobilization are correlated with successful insurgency at both the state and federal levels. This analysis will advance our understanding of the mechanisms through which strategic capacity is created and our understanding of leadership and organizational structures as sources of strategic capacity. Finally, this research will advance our understanding of how different aspects of strategic capacity interact with the different elements of the support structure for legal mobilization at the state and federal level. In truth, we do not know much about the legal campaigns of minority voting rights organizations. This research project will fill this crucial gap in the socio-legal research literature and answer key questions regarding the political use of law for political purposes.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.

最近的选举表明，政治组织仍然很重要。 1960年的《民事和投票权法案》大致规定了排他性的规定。但是，他们并未自动执行权利。白人随后改编并部署了政治排斥的新方法。当代的社会和政治背景是不同的，但是投票权的歧义和不确定性并非如此。州投票ID法律，对早期投票的限制，对注册的限制，选民滚动清除，剥夺权利和曼德曼的限制已成为少数参与的普通但系统的障碍。投票权再次受到挑战，新的de jure和事实上的选民抑制技术再次在上升。然而，试图建立，维持和利用成功法律动员所必需的战略能力的政治组织的数量也是如此。了解阿拉巴马州民主党会议如何发展，维持和采用全州战略能力，并有效地利用了二十多年的法律动员的支持结构，这将为我们了解社会运动理论的理解，并提供可以适应美国和其他西方风格的民主国家的权利倡导群体需求的见解。该研究项目将创建有关少数民族政治组织及其法律运动的研究材料存储库。从本地到国家公民和政治组织，从中学到研究生中学，将创建和传播简短的纪录片。最后，该研究项目将在研究的各个阶段纳入代表性不足的学生，增加他们的归属感，这与学术成果高度相关，并赋予研究和工作准备技能。该职业奖旨在收集和分析有关少数派政治组织如何在二十多年中跨越二十多岁的法律（1965-195-19899）的官方范围，以实现少数派的法律，并在美国历史上。为了指导ADC的检查，该项目依赖于两个理论标题下的先前的社会运动研究：法律动员和战略能力的支持结构。该研究项目将采用扎根理论，一种解释性分析方法以及雪球抽样作为免费的研究策略。该项目将洞悉未解决的问题，内容涉及法律动员支持结构的不同要素与州和联邦一级成功受伤有关。该分析将提高我们对创建战略能力的机制的理解，以及我们对领导力和组织结构作为战略能力来源的理解。最后，这项研究将提高我们对战略能力不同方面的理解，如何与州和联邦一级法律动员的支持结构的不同要素相互作用。实际上，我们对少数派投票权组织的法律运动并不了解。该研究项目将填补社会法律研究文献中的这一至关重要的差距，并回答有关法律用于政治目的的政治使用的关键问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。