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Libraries and the Circulation of Power: A Historical Case Study of Pittsburgh, 1924-2016

机译:图书馆与权力流通:匹兹堡历史案例研究,1924-2016年

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This project explores how political power shaped the development of a regional public library infrastructure in greater Pittsburgh, United States. The project is interdisciplinary in that it addresses research problems from two fields. In library studies, research related to the public sphere and public libraries uses an exhausted paradigm, one that is anachronistic and anatopic. A new public sphere paradigm is needed for research about public libraries. Also in library studies, historical accounts of libraries in greater Pittsburgh have overlooked the history of the regional public library system. A history of the system has yet to be written. In political science, Habermas's Machtkreislauf, or circulation of power model faces several objections and it has not received sufficient empirical testing. The model could be refined by applying it to an actual case. To address these problems, this project dovetails them by asking the following research question: How does the Machtkreislauf model apply to the regional public library system in Pittsburgh? To answer this question, this project uses historical case study, a research strategy that was newly developed for this project. This study proceeds in several stages: source collection and analysis, data collection and analysis, and data interpretation. Source collection combines archival research, interviewing, and fieldwork to gather source materials, periodize the case, and limn the boundaries of the case. Data collection uses qualitative content analysis to construct a coding instrument, validate it, and apply it to the source materials. Data interpretation uses qualitative comparative analysis to identify and describe the causal conditions that explain the case's outcomes. This project contributes new findings to multiple areas. To the area of research methodology, it proposes a novel research design, historical case study. To political science, it revises the Machtkreislauf model using new concepts, including circuits, tessellations, broadcast/narrowcast, and formal decision. To library studies, it offers a historical account of the regional public library system in Pittsburgh using the concept of decision cycles. Also to library studies, it proposes a new theory where configurations of civil activity, responsiveness, legitimacy, and resistance explain how the public sphere affects public library development.
机译:该项目探索政治力量如何影响美国大匹兹堡地区公共图书馆基础设施的发展。该项目是跨学科的,因为它解决了两个领域的研究问题。在图书馆研究中,与公共领域和公共图书馆有关的研究使用了一种穷尽的范式,这种范式是过时的和过时的。研究公共图书馆需要一种新的公共领域范式。同样在图书馆研究中,匹兹堡州大图书馆的历史记录忽略了区域公共图书馆系统的历史。该系统的历史尚未被写入。在政治学中,哈贝马斯的《权力模型》(Machtkreislauf)或权力模型面临着几个异议,并且还没有得到足够的经验检验。可以通过将模型应用于实际案例来完善模型。为了解决这些问题,该项目通过询问以下研究问题来解决这些问题:Machtkreislauf模型如何应用于匹兹堡的区域公共图书馆系统?为了回答这个问题,该项目使用历史案例研究,这是针对该项目新开发的研究策略。这项研究分几个阶段进行:源收集和分析,数据收集和分析以及数据解释。原始资料收集结合了档案研究,采访和实地调查,以收集原始资料,对案件进行定期分期和限制案件的范围。数据收集使用定性内容分析来构建编码工具,对其进行验证,然后将其应用于原始资料。数据解释使用定性比较分析来识别和描述解释案件结果的因果条件。该项目为多个领域贡献了新发现。在研究方法论领域,它提出了一种新颖的研究设计,历史案例研究。对于政治学而言,它使用新概念(包括巡回赛,棋盘格,广播/窄播和正式决定)修改了Machtkreislauf模型。对于图书馆研究,它使用决策周期的概念提供了匹兹堡地区公共图书馆系统的历史记录。在图书馆研究中,它还提出了一种新的理论,其中公民活动,反应性,合法性和抵抗性的配置解释了公共领域如何影响公共图书馆的发展。

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    University of Pittsburgh.;

  • 授予单位 University of Pittsburgh.;
  • 学科 Library science.;Political science.;American history.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2017
  • 页码 824 p.
  • 总页数 824
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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