The Politics of Identity and Democratic Values

这一奖项是基于成就的更新，并允许首席研究员继续对西欧偏见和政治的一般问题进行非常富有成效的研究。这位研究人员进行了三次大规模的一般人口民意调查，一次在意大利，一次在荷兰，一次在法国。这些调查在设计上具有独一无二的累积性。荷兰的研究明确旨在回答意大利研究提出的在衡量偏见的文化和经济来源方面的理论和方法问题。法国的研究旨在扩展荷兰对不容忍的政治后果的分析。这项研究的第一个扩展集中在荷兰的研究上，并关注当代对多元文化主义的压力。它特别关注三个方面：对群体利益的冲突，对国家认同的担忧，以及对现代自由民主社会固有价值观的冲突。它的目的是展示这三个压力来源是如何联系在一起的，但仍会产生不同的政治后果。第二项研究集中在法国的调查上，重点是压力下的民主价值观。它使用嵌入在意见访谈中的新一代实验，以一种前所未有的方式探索公民在面对不同形式的政治和社会压力时放弃或限制他们对民主价值观的承诺的意愿。第三项研究利用了调查者收集的几乎所有数据集，重点关注政治选择理论。作为标准的“自下而上”方法的替代，它旨在发展一种明确的政治“自上而下”的视角，强调战略政治行为者和机构在构建政党制度中的作用，从而为公众提供替代方案。调查者为西欧关于偏见和政治主题的社会学和行为科学文献做出了许多杰出的贡献。他的贡献大大加深了我们对这一主题的理解，目前的奖项允许研究人员通过基于成就的更新机制寻求进一步的高质量研究机会。

This award is an Accomplishment Based Renewal and allows the principal investigator to continue a very productive stream of research on the general problem of prejudice and politics in Western Europe. The researcher has conducted three large-scale general population public opinion surveys, one in Italy, one in the Netherlands, and one in France. The surveys are uniquely cumulative in design. The Dutch study was expressly designed to respond to theoretical and methodological questions in the measurement of cultural and economic sources of prejudice raised by the Italian study. The French study was expressly designed to extend the Dutch analysis of the political consequences of intolerance.The first extension of this research concentrates on the Dutch study and focuses on the contemporary strains over multiculturalism. It focuses particularly on three strands: the clash over group interests, the concern over national identity, and conflicts over values built-in to modern liberal democratic societies. It aims to show both how these three sources of strain are tied together, yet nonetheless have distinct political consequences.The second study, which concentrates on the French investigation, focuses on democratic values under strain. Using a new generation of experiments imbedded in opinion interviews, it explores in a way not previously possible the willingness of citizens to abandon or qualify their commitment to democratic values in the face of different forms of political and social pressure.The third study, which takes advantage of virtually all the data sets collected by the investigator, focuses on a theory of political choice. As an alternative to the standard "bottom up" approach, it aims to develop an explicitly political "top down" perspective, emphasizing the role of strategic political actors and institutions in structuring the party system and thereby the alternatives on offer to the general public.The investigator has made numerous outstanding contributions to social and behavioral science literature on the topic of prejudice and politics in Western Europe. His contributions have substantially enhanced our understanding of the topic and this current award allows the investigator to pursue further high quality research opportunities via the Accomplishment Based Renewal mechanism.