Doctoral Dissertation Research Support in Political Science

这个博士论文研究支持项目收集并提出了社会保障宪法权利对社会政策制定的影响的经验证据。 为此，学生首先分析了五个案例研究国家的法院裁决和立法辩论。 这五个国家的样本包括拥有这项权利的德国、意大利和瑞典，以及没有这项权利的美国和芬兰。 本研究将社会保障权的司法解释和法律的依据与其在控制国的地位进行了比较。 关于关键政策变化的立法辩论使我们深入了解权利和司法先例在立法者关于政策结构的决策中的重要性。 通过统计分析，更大的国家样本被用来测试德国，意大利和瑞典的政策结构模式是否适用于其他国家的这一权利。 学生前往乌普萨拉大学、赫尔辛基大学和博洛尼亚大学收集数据，并购买一台计算机来测试定量模型。 论文项目调查宪法执行，借给经验证据的法律的论点，探讨社会支出的决定因素，并创建一个独特的数据集，包括经济，制度和政治变量。

This Doctoral Dissertation Research Support project gathers and presents empirical evidence of the effect that a constitutional right to social security has on social policy making. To do so, the student first analyzes court rulings and legislative debate in five case-study countries. The five-country sample includes Germany, Italy and Sweden, which have this right, and the united States and Finland, which do not. The research compares the judicial interpretations and legal foundations of a right to social security to its status in the control countries. Legislative debate on key policy changes yields insight into the prominence of the right and judicial precedents in legislators' decisionmaking about policy structure. Using statistical analysis, a larger sample of countries is used to test whether the patterns of policy structure in Germany, Italy and Sweden hold for other nations with this right. The student travels to the Universities of Uppsala, Helsinki, and Bologna to gather data, and the purchase of a computer with which to test quantitative models. The dissertation project investigates constitutional enforcement, lends empirical evidence to legal arguments, explores the determinants of social spending, and creates a unique dataset including economic, institutional and political variables.