Factors in Political Change: A Case Study in Malawi

政治变革的因素：马拉维案例研究

• 批准号: 9511792
• 负责人: Goran Hyden
• 金额: $ 0.4万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-10-01 至 1997-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9511792&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Factors; Political; Change; Case; Study

This dissertation enhancement grant supports a U.S. graduate student enrolled at the University of Florida, Mr. Peter VonDoepp, working under the guidance of Dr. Goran Hyden, Professor of Political Science, to do field research in Malawi. The project will study the potential of churches to serve as elements of a democratizing civil society, employing as case studies, Malawi's Catholic Church and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. It will assess the churches as agents of political transformation, and as influences on habits and practices at the grass roots. The study will be conducted with the cooperation and assistance of the Department of Religious Studies at Chancellor College, the University of Malawi. At a time when democracy in many developing countries is under challenge from ethnic conflict and religious pluralism, this study by a promising young researcher can potentially yield important insights on the relationship between religion and political behavior. Malawi is one of the less-studied polities in Africa. This collaboration with the foreign institution provides a basis for future cooperation throughout the researcher's career.

这项论文增强赠款支持佛罗里达大学入学的美国研究生彼得·范多普先生，在政治学教授戈兰·海登（Goran Hyden）博士的指导下，在马拉维进行实地研究。 该项目将研究教会成为民主社会民主化的要素的潜力，采用案例研究，马拉维天主教会和中非长老会教会。 它将评估教会作为政治转型的推动者，并将其影响基层的习惯和实践的影响。 该研究将在马拉维大学校长学院的宗教研究系的合作与协助下进行。 在许多发展中国家的民主受到种族冲突和宗教多元化的挑战时，有前途的年轻研究人员的这项研究可能会产生对宗教与政治行为之间关系的重要见解。 马拉维是非洲较少研究的政体之一。与外国机构的合作为整个研究人员职业的未来合作提供了基础。