Democratic Party Presidential Primary Campaigns and the Left, 1980-1988

这个项目将利用爱德华·肯尼迪和杰西·杰克逊的美国民主党总统初选活动来评估20世纪80年代美国左翼的力量。运用比较历史和弗里登的形态分析的方法，该项目将检查肯尼迪和杰克逊的竞选材料，以确定是否民主党左派的基本面在过去十年中改变了里根总统，以及在何种程度上，在左边的利益集团能够影响这些运动。它将研究民主党内部不断变化的机构权力中心，以及这些运动与种族和民族政治之间的关系，特别是左翼选区（例如工会和民权团体）在国家和政党明显动荡的背景下影响运动的程度。我的分析将依赖于对C-SPAN在线竞选视频档案的详细探索，牛津大学Vere Harmsworth图书馆的竞选媒体评论，约翰·F·肯尼迪图书馆爱德华·肯尼迪收藏的材料。波士顿的肯尼迪图书馆和芝加哥公共图书馆的芝加哥市长哈罗德·华盛顿等与杰克逊有关的人物的藏品。我一直专注于这一时期在我的工作，写了一流的本科论文，认为两个著名的非洲裔美国运动员的互动与黑人政治在“漫长的70年代”。为此，我赢得了“2019年体育史本科生论文奖”和诺丁汉大学人文学院硕士奖学金。我通过我的硕士论文的重点是肯尼迪和杰克逊运动及其对理解20世纪80年代自由主义意识形态的意义，在这项工作的基础上。通过我在诺丁汉大学的时间，我已经与我的未来主管乔默顿，谁监督我以前的项目，并在种族和民族的政治，包括该项目的关键部分的专业知识发展了强大的工作关系。此外，该大学的美国和加拿大研究系提供了进一步的研究专业知识，尤其是凌教授作为第二导师，以及种族和权利研究中心和政治意识形态研究中心，使诺丁汉成为研究我的项目研究主题的理想中心。

This project will use the American Democratic Party Presidential primary election campaigns of Edward Kennedy and Jesse Jackson to assess the power of the American left during the 1980s. Applying the methods of comparative history and Freeden's morphological analysis, the project will examine the campaign material of Kennedy and Jackson to ascertain whether the fundamentals of the Democratic Left shifted over the decade in response to the Reagan presidency, and the degree to which interest groups on the left were able to influence these campaigns. It will examine the changing centres of institutional power within the Democratic Party and the relationship between these campaigns and the politics of race and ethnicity, especially the extent to which constituencies of the Left (e.g. unions and civil rights groups) could influence campaigns in the context of apparent rightward drift in the nation and the party. My analysis will rely on a detailed exploration of C-SPAN's online campaign video archive, campaign media commentary from the Vere Harmsworth Library at the University of Oxford, material from the Edward Kennedy collections at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston and collections from figures connected to Jackson like Chicago Mayor Harold Washington in the Chicago Public Library. I have consistently focused on this period in my work, writing a first-class undergraduate dissertation that considered two prominent African-American athletes' interaction with black politics during the 'long1970s'. For this, I won the 'Sport in History Undergraduate Essay Prize 2019' and the University of Nottingham's School of Humanities Masters Bursary. I am building on this work through my MA dissertation's focus on the Kennedy and Jackson campaigns and their significance for understanding liberal ideology in the 1980s. Through my time at the University of Nottingham I have developed a strong working relationship with my prospective supervisor Joe Merton, who supervised both my previous projects, and has expertise on the politics of race and ethnicity that comprise a key part of the project. Moreover, the university's American and Canadian Studies department provides further research expertise, not least Professor Ling as second supervisor, as well as the Centre for Research in Race and Rights and the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies that make Nottingham the ideal centre forstudying the subjects my project examines.