Doctoral Dissertation Research: Agenda Setting and Framing in Citizen Deliberation

博士论文研究：公民审议中的议程设置和框架

• 批准号: 0623126
• 负责人: Erik Wright
• 金额: $ 0.74万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0623126&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Agenda; Setting

SES-0623126Erik O. WrightAmy LangUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonThis research studies whether new forums for citizen participation in policy making provide substantively equal opportunities to all those who are involved. Some critics of new citizen participation forums are concerned that participants with higher social status, education and rhetorical skill will dominate discussions and shape policy to disproportionately suit their interests. Using transcripts of real-world citizen policy deliberations the project will systematically analyze citizen talk over the course of citizen political decision-making. The analysis will focus on two questions: first, who sets the agenda for discussion? By examining patterns in the introduction of new topics of conversation, the research will evaluate the degree to which members of different social groups are able to set the agenda for discussion. Second, whose interests are used to frame the arguments for a particular policy outcome? The research will systematically trace the interests and criteria that are used to frame arguments in the course of deliberation, and what frames and arguments get picked up by the rest of the group. This study makes several important contributions to sociology and political science. Previous research has measured participant equality by analyzing the demographic characteristics of participants, or by counting speaking turns. This study proposes that measuring the introduction of new ideas can give us a better understanding of whether different participants have substantively equal influence in decision-making processes. More broadly, the study will contribute to debates about citizen participation and political talk by providing empirical evidence that addresses an important criticism of citizen participation. Finally, funding from the NSF will allow for the creation and dissemination of a rare form of data: complete conversation transcripts of a real-world exercise in citizen political decision-making. The larger goals of the research are to address the question of whether new forums for citizen participation are empowering to politically under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, and young people.

SES-0623126ERIK O.威斯康星州麦迪逊研究研究的Wrightamy Languniversity研究是否为公民参与政策制定的新论坛是否为所有参与的人提供了实质上平等的机会。一些新公民参与论坛的批评者担心，具有较高社会地位，教育和修辞能力的参与者将主导讨论和制定政策，以不成比例地适合其利益。 使用现实世界公民政策审议的成绩单该项目将在公民政治决策过程中系统地分析公民谈话。分析将重点放在两个问题上：首先，谁设定了讨论议程？通过在引入新的对话主题时检查模式，研究将评估不同社会群体的成员能够为讨论设定议程的程度。第二，谁的利益用于构建特定政策结果的论点？这项研究将系统地追踪用于在审议过程中构建论点的利益和标准，以及该小组其他成员所挑选的框架和论点。这项研究为社会学和政治学做出了一些重要的贡献。先前的研究通过分析参与者的人口特征或计算说话转弯来衡量参与者平等。这项研究建议，测量新想法的引入可以使我们更好地了解不同参与者在决策过程中是否具有相同的影响。从更广泛的角度来看，该研究将通过提供对公民参与的重要批评的经验证据，为公民参与和政治演讲的辩论做出贡献。最后，NSF的资金将允许创建和传播一种罕见的数据形式：公民政治决策中现实世界中的完整对话记录。该研究的更大目标是解决新的公民参与论坛是否有能力赋予政治上代表性不足的群体，例如妇女，少数民族和年轻人的问题。