Women’s Political Participation in a Transitioning Democracy

民主转型中的妇女政治参与

基本信息

批准号：
2104185
负责人：
Maro Youssef
金额：
$ 14.3万
依托单位：
Youssef, Maro
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Fellowship Award
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-09-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2104185&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Women Political Participation Transitioning Democracy

项目摘要

This award was provided as part of NSF’s Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Rhacel Parreñas at the University of Southern California (USC), this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating the role of women in politics during a democratic transition. Existing research on women’s political participation during democratic transitions generally concludes that women participate in revolutions and the early years of democratic transitions but stop shortly after. The United States,in particular, supports women political candidates and politicians, which likely improves their ability to remain politically active. Women politicians who get elected during democratic transitions deserve to be studied because they provide a model of increasing women’s political participation—not through political appointments, but rather through elections. The researcher will employ and train junior researchers to conduct policy-relevant research and communicate the research’s findings through written and oral policy briefings. Research on women’s long-term political participation during political transitions has tended to subscribe to one of two major sets of assumptions. First, much research assumes that women do not gain political influence beyond revolutions and the initial years of democratic transition. In contrast, the literature that argues that women become influential in the long term tends to focus exclusively on post-civil war contexts. Second, there is a growing scholarly literature on coalitions. Yet, much of the literature focuses on places where political actors form coalitions under relatively stable political conditions. Third, there are scholarly and activist debates about the role and impact of assistance during democratic transitions. Findings from this research can shed light on women’s political participation during democratic transitions and on coalition work across party lines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是NSF的社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划的一部分。 SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门以及政府的科学职业以及政府的科学职业准备前景，为前景做准备。 SPRF奖项涉及在既定科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。 NSF试图促进科学界各个细分市场的科学家的参与，包括来自代表性不足的群体的研究计划和活动；博士后时期被认为是实现这一目标的重要水平。每个博士后研究员都必须解决重要的科学问题，以推进各自的学科领域。在南加州大学（USC）的RhacelParreñas博士的赞助下，该博士后奖学金奖支持了早期的职业科学家，调查了妇女在民主过渡期间政治中的作用。现有关于妇女在民主过渡期间政治参与的研究通常得出结论，妇女参与了革命和民主过渡的早期，但不久之后就停止了。特别是美国支持妇女政治候选人和政治家，这可能会提高其保持政治活跃的能力。在民主过渡期间当选的妇女政治家应该被研究，因为它们提供了增加妇女政治参与的模式，而不是通过政治任命，而是通过选举。研究人员将采用和培训初级研究人员进行与政策相关的研究，并通过书面和口头政策简介来传达研究结果。关于妇女在政治过渡期间的长期政治参与的研究倾向于赞成两种主要假设之一。首先，许多研究假设妇女不会超越革命和民主过渡的最初几年获得政治影响力。相反，关于长期影响妇女具有影响力的论点的文献倾向于专门集中在后战争后的情况上。其次，关于联盟的科学文献越来越多。然而，许多文献都集中在政治参与者在相对稳定的政治条件下组成联盟的地方。第三，关于援助在民主过渡中的作用和影响的科学和激进主义者辩论。这项研究的结果可以揭示在民主过渡期间妇女的政治参与和跨党派的联盟工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估的评估来支持的。