Orientations toward Law and Normative Ordering: Rights and Duties

9311403科恩这个项目将研究如何不断变化的法律文化可能会影响新的民主国家和其他系统，无论是在过渡或专制。这项跨国研究将比较中欧东部三个新兴民主国家（匈牙利、波兰和保加利亚）与较为成熟的民主国家（西班牙、法国和美国）在法律和规范秩序方面的取向。这项研究代表了一个项目的第一阶段，该项目将测量这六个国家的公民权利意识，以及对程序正义和权利义务的态度。在第一阶段，研究人员将与美国合作者和东欧各国的合作者合作，制定一份调查问卷，以衡量六个国家对法律和规范秩序的态度。调查问卷将在美国和海外5个国家进行预试，并在美国2个城市进行调查。这项初步工作的结果将被分析并用于在五个外国开展更大规模的研究。这项研究将增加对处于不同民主化阶段的国家的法律取向和规范秩序的认识。这也将有助于我们理解如何成功地进行跨文化调查。＊＊＊

9311403 Cohn This project will examine how the changing legal cultures may affect new democracies and other systems that are either in transition or authoritarian. This transnational study will compare orientations toward law and normative ordering in three new democracies in Eastern Central Europe (Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria) to those in more established democracies (Spain, France and the United States). This research represents the first phase of a project which will measure citizen rights consciousness, and attitudes toward procedural justice and rights and duties in these six countries. During this first phase, the investigator, working with U.S. collaborators and collaborators in various countries in Eastern Europe, will develop a survey questionnaire to measure attitudes towards law and normative ordering across the six countries. The questionnaire will be pretested in the U.S. and the five foreign countries and surveys conducted in two U.S. cities. Findings from this preliminary work will be analyzed and used to develop a larger study in the five foreign countries. %%% This research will increase knowledge about orientations toward law and normative ordering in countries which are in different stages of democratization. It will also contribute to our understanding of how to successfully conduct cross-cultural surveys. ***