Doctoral Dissertation Research: Policy Experts, Political Intellectuals, and Political Change in the United States, 1935-1950

9401115 Karabel博士论文研究改进资助项目。这是一项对1935-1950年美国政策专家、政治知识分子和政治变革的研究，评估了专家和知识分子在调解不同政策结果方面发挥的作用。这将通过四个案例研究来完成：1)社会保障，2)劳动法改革，3)国家卫生政策，4)就业政策。分析将比较这些领域中政策辩论和政治文化的背景，评估专家改革者及其在政治知识分子中的盟友在政策领域主导辩论的程度。这项研究将有助于政治社会学，评估以国家为中心的制度方法理论与以阶级为中心的方法理论的相对成功。除了研究取得的科学成果外，该奖项还将极大地帮助极有前途的学生完成博士论文的研究。有利于培养国家未来的科学人才，有利于培养下一代社会科学家。＊＊＊

9401115 Karabel This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research Program. It is a study of policy experts, political intellectuals, and political change in the United States, 1935-1950, assessing the roles that experts and intellectuals played in mediating different policy outcomes. This will be accomplished through four case studies: 1) Social Security, 2) labor law reform, 3) national health policy, and 4) employment policy. Analysis will compare the context of policy debates and political culture in each of these domains, assessing the extent to which expert reformers and their allies among political intellectuals dominated debates in policy arenas. %%% This research will contribute to political sociology, evaluating the relative success of theories based on state- centered institutional approaches compared with those based on class-centered approaches. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the future scientific manpower of the nation and the thorough training of the next generation of social scientists. ***