Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Knowledge-Making: the Relationship between Science, Democracy, and Development

博士论文研究：社会知识创造：科学、民主与发展之间的关系

• 批准号: 1303560
• 负责人: Patrick Heller
• 金额: $ 0.92万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1303560&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Knowledge

SES-1303560PI: Patrick Heller Co-PI: Diana Graizbord Brown UniversityIn recent years, civil society organizations, Mexican and international experts, state bureaucrats and elected officials have made demands for, and joined in the project of state and social policy reform. This challenging task is undergirded by a powerful and mobilizing idea about the potential for "knowledge- and evidence-based" policy to democratize and modernize the bureaucracy responsible for the design and administration of social policy, and thus, to deliver more effectively, efficiently and transparently that which the citizens of this nascent democracy have been promised. The transformation toward democratic forms of social policy in Mexico remains an ongoing project through which new forms of expertise are being crafted, new relationships forged, and through which the meaning of democracy and future of development in Mexico are being negotiated. This dissertation seeks to explain how state, expert and civil society actors involved in social policy modernization and democratization imagine and understand this political project; how the forms of expertise that occupy the epicenter of this project are produced and used in contemporary Mexican social policymaking; and what the effects of this ongoing process are on the country's welfare and development future. This qualitative case study includes ethnographic observation of the production and circulation of social policy knowledge and policy evidence; in-depth interviews with experts, civil society leaders and state officials; and analysis of key documents and media. By providing an ethnographic account of the micro-foundations that shape social policy in Mexico this research hopes to contribute to an interdisciplinary literature on emergent welfare states in the Global South; theories of state power and statecraft; and to the growing understanding of the relationship between expertise and democracy.BROADER IMPACTSFirst, as social development policy moves in the direction of "evidence-based" interventions, and as science is increasingly mobilized as a tool of democracy the findings of this dissertation will prove a valuable resource for scholars and policy practitioners in the US, Mexico and throughout the Global South. Second, given the international fieldwork component this research will enhance collaboration and contribute to a cross-disciplinary, international dialogue.

SES-1303560PI：帕特里克·海勒（Patrick Heller Co-Pi）：近年来戴安娜·格雷兹博德·布朗大学（Diana Graizbord Brown University），民间社会组织，墨西哥和国际专家，州官僚和民选官员已经提出了要求，并加入了国家和社会政策改革项目。这项具有挑战性的任务受到了关于“知识和证据”政策的潜力，使民主化和现代化负责社会政策的设计和管理的官僚机构的潜力，并更加有效，有效，有效，透明地实现了这个新生民主的公民。墨西哥向民主政策的民主形式的转变仍然是一个正在进行的项目，通过该项目，正在制定新的专业知识，新的关系，并通过该项目来谈判墨西哥的民主和发展未来的意义。本论文旨在解释参与社会政策现代化和民主化参与的国家，专家和民间社会行为者如何想象并理解这一政治项目；如何在当代墨西哥社会政策制定中生产和使用占据该项目中心的专业知识的形式？这一持续过程的影响对国家的福利和发展未来有何影响。这项定性案例研究包括民族志学观察社会政策知识和政策证据的生产和流通；对专家，民间社会领导人和州官员的深入访谈；以及关键文档和媒体的分析。通过提供有关塑造墨西哥社会政策的微观基础的人种学说明，这项研究希望为全球南方新兴福利国家的跨学科文献做出贡献；国家权力和股权理论；以及对专业知识与民主之间关系的日益了解。BROADER首先影响了社会发展政策朝着“基于循证”的干预措施的方向发展，并且随着科学越来越被作为民主的工具动员起来，这一论文的发现将证明对美国，墨西哥和整个全球南部的学者和政策从业人员来说都是宝贵的资源。其次，鉴于国际现场工作组成部分，这项研究将增强协作，并促进跨学科的国际对话。