The Volunteer or Resist: Case Studies in Contingent Consent

自愿或抵抗：或有同意的案例研究

• 批准号: 9111050
• 负责人: Margaret Levi
• 金额: $ 4.5万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-07-15 至 1992-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9111050&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Volunteer; Resist; Case; Studies; Contingent

Voluntary compliance by citizens with the laws and policies of the nation is fundamental to the stable functioning of democratic society. Although compliance can be produced in the short run by force, theory maintains that in the long run compliance must be voluntary if democratic institutions are to survive. This study examines the nature, extent, and determinants of voluntary or contingent compliance by comparing decisions to volunteer for military service with decisions to resistance military conscription. Two critical cases will be examined, the Irish in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th century and the French Canadians during this century. These cases will be used to test the hypothesis that voluntary compliance is possible only when institutional arrangements exists that provide information to the public so that government policies are perceived as fair and other citizens are perceived as doing their fair share. When completed this study will enhance our understanding of the circumstances under which citizens will voluntarily comply with government laws and policies. The findings should have implications not only for contemporary democracies such as the United States but for the many nations in Eastern Europe and the third world that are struggling to establish stable democratic rule.

公民对国家法律和政策的自愿遵守是民主社会稳定运作的基础。 尽管可以在武力的短期内产生合规性，但理论认为，从长远来看，如果民主制度要生存，则必须是自愿的。 这项研究通过将决定与志愿者的兵役与抵抗军事征兵的决定进行比较，研究了自愿或偶然性遵守的性质，程度和决定因素。 将检查两个关键案件，即19世纪末和20世纪初在英国的爱尔兰人和本世纪的法国加拿大人。 这些案件将用于检验以下假设：只有在存在向公众提供信息的机构安排时，才有可能自愿合规，以便将政府政策视为公平，而其他公民则被认为是公平的份额。 完成后，这项研究将增强我们对公民自愿遵守政府法律和政策的情况的理解。 这些发现不仅对当代民主国家（例如美国）具有影响，而且对东欧和第三世界的许多国家都在努力建立稳定的民主统治。