TECHNO: How Technological Change Reshapes Politics: Technology, Elections, and Policies

技术：技术变革如何重塑政治：技术、选举和政策

• 批准号: ES/XX00057/1
• 负责人: Henning Finseraas
• 金额: $ 41.77万
• 依托单位: Institute for Social Research
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FXX00057%2F1
• 关键词: TECHNO; How; Technological; Change; Reshapes

Technological change and automation are disrupting labor markets in advanced democracies andrekindling fears about technological unemployment and how the future of work will be. While there islittle doubt that rapid technological progress has far-reaching economic effects, its political consequencesremain largely unexplored. The goal of this project is to study how technological change in the workplacecontributes to ongoing deep political transformations (including the surge of populist movements), theadoption of policies to address change, and the political consequences of such policies.The project is organized in four complementary work packages (WP). WP1 examines how workers’individual economic trajectories and political behavior change when their industries digitalize. WP2studies how the introduction of technology affects local-level political and electoral outcomes using richadministrative data. WP3 assesses how technological vulnerability affects citizen preferences for a widerange of policies to respond to technological change. WP4 analyses the successes, failures, and politicalconsequences of existing social policies to reduce individual and regional disparities due to technologicalchange.The project will contribute to understanding how the grievances generated by profound technologicalchange manifest themselves politically. It will result in recommendations of politically viable and effectivepolicies to help workers and communities adapt to a fast-changing economic landscape and increasedinsecurity about what the future of jobs will be, which ensures a high potential for impact. The projecthelps understand “The evolving politics of threat” (theme 2 of the call) and the underlying causes of“Shifting identities and representation” (theme 4).

技术变革和自动化正在扰乱发达民主国家的劳动力市场，并重新引发人们对技术性失业以及未来工作方式的担忧。尽管毫无疑问，快速的技术进步会产生深远的经济影响，但其政治后果在很大程度上仍未得到探索。该项目的目标是研究工作场所的技术变革如何促进持续的深刻政治变革（包括民粹主义运动的激增）、应对变革的政策的采取以及此类政策的政治后果。该项目由四个互补的工作包（WP）组成。 WP1 研究了工人的个人经济轨迹和政治行为在其行业数字化时如何变化。 WP2 使用丰富的行政数据研究技术的引入如何影响地方政治和选举结果。 WP3 评估技术脆弱性如何影响公民对应对技术变革的各种政策的偏好。 WP4 分析了现有社会政策的成功、失败和政治后果，以减少技术变革造成的个人和地区差异。该项目将有助于理解深刻的技术变革所产生的不满如何在政治上表现出来。它将产生政治上可行和有效的政策建议，以帮助工人和社区适应快速变化的经济格局以及对就业未来的不确定性增加，从而确保产生巨大的影响潜力。该项目有助于理解“不断演变的威胁政治”（主题 2）和“转变身份和代表”（主题 4）的根本原因。