Doctoral Dissertation Research: Mechanisms of Advancement in a Semi-Profession

博士论文研究：半职业的晋升机制

• 批准号: 1003809
• 负责人: Michael Hout
• 金额: $ 0.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1003809&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Mechanisms; Advancement

SES-1003809Michael HoutDaniel LaurisonUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe research studies the role professional campaign staffers and consultants play in American elections. Political operatives create the advertisements and flyers voters see, craft the speeches voters hear, script the phone calls and visits they receive, and determine which voters will be targeted with each of these communications. They shape candidates? messages, their self-presentations, and their daily schedules. Although candidates may have final say, the vast majority of campaign strategies are decided upon and implemented by campaign staff and consultants. And yet scholars know remarkably little about the people who play such an important role in shaping the American political landscape. Specifically, this project looks at the paths to entry and advancement within the political field. The first part of the research involves the creation and analysis of a database containing the career paths of all staffers and consultants who held decision-making responsibilities in Presidential or Senate campaigns between 2003 and 2008. The second part of the project is based on in-depth interviews with a subset of these political professionals in Washington, D.C. and around the country. The intellectual contributions of this dissertation is to understand an understudied area of sociological interest, political work world, that has been investigated neither by scholars of work and professions nor by political sociologistsBroader ImpactsThis research has the potential to have broader impacts through shedding light on the mechanisms that govern success in a field that has been historically white and male-dominated. Research findings will advance understanding of the processes American political campaigns within both the field of sociology as well as among the public more broadly.

SES-1003809 Michael Houtdaniel Laurisonuniversity，加利福尼亚州，伯克利研究研究研究专业运动员和顾问在美国选举中扮演的角色。政治特工创建的广告和传单选民会看到，制作演讲选民听到的演讲，脚本拼写电话和访问，并确定哪些选民将被针对这些沟通。他们塑造候选人？消息，他们的自我表现及其日程安排。尽管候选人可能有最终决定权，但绝大多数竞选策略都是由竞选人员和顾问决定并实施的。然而，学者们对在塑造美国政治景观中发挥如此重要作用的人们几乎没有什么了解。 具体来说，该项目着眼于政治领域内进入和进步的途径。该研究的第一部分涉及对所有员工和顾问的职业道路的创建和分析，他们在2003年至2008年之间在总统或参议院竞选中承担决策责任的职业道路。该项目的第二部分基于与华盛顿特区和全国各地这些政治专业人士的深入访谈。 这项论文的智力贡献是要了解社会学兴趣，政治工作世界的研究研究领域，该领域既没有受到工作和职业学者的研究，也没有受到政治社会学家的影响，而这项研究的潜力通过揭示了在历史上占据了史无前例的白人和男性含义的领域的机制，从而产生更广泛的影响。 研究结果将进一步了解社会学领域以及公众之间的美国政治运动。