Democratic Party Presidential Primary Campaigns and the Left, 1980-1988

民主党总统初选竞选和左翼，1980-1988 年

• 批准号: 2446795
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 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=studentship-2446795
• 关键词: Democratic; Party; Presidential; Primary; Campaigns

This project will use the American Democratic Party Presidential primary election campaigns of Edward Kennedy and Jesse Jackson to assess the power of the American left during the 1980s. Applying the methods of comparative history and Freeden's morphological analysis, the project will examine the campaign material of Kennedy and Jackson to ascertain whether the fundamentals of the Democratic Left shifted over the decade in response to the Reagan presidency, and the degree to which interest groups on the left were able to influence these campaigns. It will examine the changing centres of institutional power within the Democratic Party and the relationship between these campaigns and the politics of race and ethnicity, especially the extent to which constituencies of the Left (e.g. unions and civil rights groups) could influence campaigns in the context of apparent rightward drift in the nation and the party. My analysis will rely on a detailed exploration of C-SPAN's online campaign video archive, campaign media commentary from the Vere Harmsworth Library at the University of Oxford, material from the Edward Kennedy collections at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston and collections from figures connected to Jackson like Chicago Mayor Harold Washington in the Chicago Public Library. I have consistently focused on this period in my work, writing a first-class undergraduate dissertation that considered two prominent African-American athletes' interaction with black politics during the 'long1970s'. For this, I won the 'Sport in History Undergraduate Essay Prize 2019' and the University of Nottingham's School of Humanities Masters Bursary. I am building on this work through my MA dissertation's focus on the Kennedy and Jackson campaigns and their significance for understanding liberal ideology in the 1980s. Through my time at the University of Nottingham I have developed a strong working relationship with my prospective supervisor Joe Merton, who supervised both my previous projects, and has expertise on the politics of race and ethnicity that comprise a key part of the project. Moreover, the university's American and Canadian Studies department provides further research expertise, not least Professor Ling as second supervisor, as well as the Centre for Research in Race and Rights and the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies that make Nottingham the ideal centre forstudying the subjects my project examines.

该项目将利用爱德华·肯尼迪（Edward Kennedy）和杰西·杰克逊（Jesse Jackson）的美国民主党总统初选运动，以评估1980年代美国左派的力量。采用比较历史的方法并释放了形态学分析，该项目将研究肯尼迪和杰克逊的竞选材料，以确定在十年来，左派的基本面是否因里根总统职位而发生了变化，以及左派利益群体能够影响这些运动的程度。它将研究民主党内部机构权力的变化中心，以及这些运动与种族和种族政治之间的关系，尤其是在左派的选区（例如工会和民权团体）可能在国家和政党明显的右派漂移的背景下影响竞选活动的程度。我的分析将依赖于牛津大学Vere Harmsworth图书馆的C-Span在线广告系列档案库的详细探索，来自波士顿John F. Kennedy图书馆的Edward Kennedy收藏品的材料以及来自芝加哥公共图书馆的芝加哥市长Harold Washington的人物的藏品以及与杰克逊（Jackson）的人物收藏。在我的工作中，我一直专注于这一时期，撰写了一流的本科论文，该论文考虑了两名著名的非裔美国运动员在“长1970年代”中与黑人政治的互动。为此，我赢得了“ 2019年历史本科生论文奖”和诺丁汉大学人文学院硕士助学金。我通过我的MA论文对肯尼迪和杰克逊竞选活动的关注及其在1980年代理解自由主义意识形态的意义上，在这项工作上进行基础。在诺丁汉大学的时间里，我与准主管乔·默顿（Joe Merton）建立了牢固的工作关系，后者监督了我以前的两个项目，并且在种族和种族政治方面具有专业知识，包括该项目的关键部分。此外，该大学的美国和加拿大研究系还提供了进一步的研究专业知识，尤其是Ling教授担任第二主管，以及种族和权利研究中心，以及政治意识形态研究中心，使诺丁汉成为诺丁汉成为我项目研究主题的理想中心。