Collaborative Research: Comparative Study of Women's Policy Offices: 1970-2000

这是一个跨国项目，旨在研究政府办公室，以提高妇女地位，促进性别平等。五名美国学者，即该奖项的pi，将与来自其他11个国家的约30名研究人员合作，研究自1995年以来一直在进行的一个项目，研究与堕胎、卖淫、职业培训和妇女民主代表有关的法律制定过程，以及妇女在移民、经济结构调整和福利改革中的地位。利用政治研究的比较方法，本研究项目将检验三个一般假设：(1)妇女运动在实现其目标方面的成功是否由于政府内部妇女政策办公室的干预；(2)妇女运动的成功与否或妇女政策办公室的有效性取决于运动的资源和开放的政策环境，或两者兼而有之；(3)如果没有政策部门的干预，妇女运动能否取得同样的成功。pi已经建立了一套详细的操作定义和程序，将指导每个研究人员的数据收集。该计划旨在确保研究结果的可比性，从而提高项目对制度有效性和社会运动影响的实证检验理论的潜在贡献。

This is a cross-national project to study government offices to improve the status of women and promote sex-based equality. Five US scholars, the PIs in this award, will work with approximately 30 researchers from 11 other countries in a project that has been underway since 1995 to study law making processes pertaining to abortion, prostitution, job training and democratic representation of women, as well as the status of women's concerns in immigration, economic restructuring and welfare reform. Using the comparative method of political research, three general hypotheses will be examined in this research project (1) whether or not the success of women's movements in achieving their goals is due to intervention by women's policy offices inside the government; (2) whether or not women's movement success or women's policy office effectiveness depends on the resources of the movement and an open policy environment or both; (3) whether or not women's movements can be as successful without intervention by policy offices. The PIs have established a detailed set of operational definitions and procedures that will guide the data collection by each researcher. This plan is designed to ensure the comparability of the findings and thus enhance the project's potential contribution to empirically tested theory of institutional effectiveness and social movement impact.