Doctoral Dissertation Research: Geographic Dimensions of Local Policy Change Across Different Urban Settings

博士论文研究：不同城市环境下地方政策变化的地理维度

• 批准号: 1535674
• 负责人: Kim England
• 金额: $ 1.56万
• 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: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1535674&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Geographic; Dimensions

This doctoral dissertation research project will investigate the factors that influence the geographic spread of campaigns for an increased minimum wage across the U.S. The doctoral student will examine the spatial strategies employed by labor organizations, the variation of these strategies across locations, and the generalized patterns of movement of minimum wage increases as they proliferate throughout the country. Although focused on the topic of minimum-wage increases, the project will provide new insights and information regarding a broader range of topics by examining the importance of networks, policy context, and the material and discursive power of institutions for the spatial-temporal mobility of policies. The project will yield new theoretical insights about the strategies of labor organizations as well as an empirical investigation into the practical mechanisms that enable and constrain policy mobility, thereby benefitting both scholars and policy practitioners. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.This project will focus three core questions: (1) How do policy initiatives to increase the minimum wage spread spatially? (2) What are the spatial strategies employed by labor unions and other labor organizations as they design and implement campaigns to promote increased minimum wage? (3) How do these campaigns and the wage-related policies vary by location? The doctoral student will perform a comparative case study of three campaigns for an increase in the minimum-wage rate in the cities of Seattle, Washington; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Charlotte, North Carolina. She will employ participant observation and qualitative interviews to gather relevant data, and she will analyze these data using a grounded theory approach to identify the mechanisms through which policy translation occurs and to trace the spread of recent minimum wage increase efforts throughout the nation.

该博士学位论文研究项目将调查影响运动的地理蔓延的因素，以提高美国的最低工资，博士生将研究劳动组织采用的空间策略，这些策略跨越地点的变化以及最低工资运动的普遍模式随着整个国家的繁殖而增加。 尽管专注于最低工资的主题增加，但该项目将通过研究网络，政策环境以及机构对政策空间流动性的材料和话语的重要性，提供有关更广泛主题的新见解和信息。 该项目将产生有关劳工组织战略的新理论见解，以及对实现和限制政策流动性的实际机制的实证研究，从而使学者和政策从业人员受益。 作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，以使有前途的学生能够建立强大的独立研究职业。该项目将重点介绍三个核心问题：（1）如何在空间上增加最低工资的政策计划？ （2）工会和其他劳工组织在设计和实施运动以促进最低工资时采用的空间策略是什么？ （3）这些活动和与工资有关的政策如何因位置而异？ 博士生将对华盛顿州西雅图市的最低工资率提高三项运动的比较案例研究；威斯康星州密尔沃基；和北卡罗来纳州夏洛特。 她将采用参与者的观察和定性访谈来收集相关数据，她将使用扎根的理论方法来分析这些数据，以确定发生政策翻译的机制，并追踪最近最低工资的最低工资增加努力在全国范围内的传播。