Popular Petitioning and Mass Democracy in the United States: a History

美国的民众请愿和群众民主：一段历史

• 批准号: FT190100258
• 负责人: A/Prof Timothy Verhoeven
• 金额: $ 59.09万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-06-30 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT190100258
• 关键词: Popular; Petitioning; Mass; Democracy; United

This project aims to investigate the neglected history of popular petitioning in the United States. Across the long nineteenth century, activists organised mass petition campaigns in support of causes as diverse as antislavery, suffrage and immigration restriction. In the twentieth century, however, petitioning dwindled. The project draws on this rich archive of activism to assess the role, impact and evolution of petitioning as a democratic tool. The expected outcome is a new perspective on a vital development: the emergence of mass democracy. Furthermore, the project should provide a critical historical framework for assessing modern-day claims about the digital petition and its power to bridge the gulf between citizens and government.

这个项目旨在调查被忽视的美国民众请愿的历史。在漫长的19世纪，活动家们组织了大规模的请愿活动，以支持反奴隶制、选举权和移民限制等各种各样的事业。然而，在20世纪，请愿活动减少了。该项目利用丰富的激进主义档案来评估请愿作为民主工具的作用、影响和演变。预期的结果是对一个重要发展的新视角：大众民主的出现。此外，该项目应该提供一个重要的历史框架，以评估现代对数字请愿书的主张及其弥合公民和政府之间鸿沟的力量。