scholarly journals Measuring Nation States’ Deliberativeness: Systematic Challenges, Methodological Pitfalls, and Strategies for Upscaling the Measurement of Deliberation

2020 ◽  
pp. 003232171989081
Author(s):  
Dannica Fleuß ◽  
Karoline Helbig
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Valid Measurement ◽  
Democratic Quality ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Nation States

A theoretically reflected and empirically valid measurement of nation states’ democratic quality must include an assessment of polities’ deliberativeness. This article examines the assessment of deliberativeness suggested by two sophisticated contemporary measurements of democratic quality, that is, the Democracy Barometer and the Varieties of Democracy-project. We feature two sets of challenges, each measurement of deliberativeness must meet: First, it must address the methodological challenges arising in the course of conceptualizing, operationalizing, and aggregating complex concepts (see Munck and Verkuilen, 2002). Second, attempts to measure nation states’ deliberativeness are confronted with specific conceptual and systematic challenges which we derive from recent deliberative democracy scholarship. We argue that both Democracy Barometer and Varieties of Democracy-project provide highly sophisticated assessments of democratic quality, but ultimately fail to capture nation states “deliberativeness” in a theoretically reflected and methodologically sound manner. We examine the methodological, pragmatic, and systematic reasons for these shortcomings. The crucial task for measurements of nation states’ deliberativeness consists in providing a conceptual approach and methodological framework for “upscaling” existing meso-level measurements (such as the DQI). The concluding section presents conceptual and methodological strategies that can enable researchers to meet these challenges and to provide a theoretically grounded and empirically valid measurement of nation states’ deliberativeness.

scholarly journals Four Parameters for Measuring Democratic Deliberation: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges and How to Respond

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dannica Fleuß ◽  
Karoline Helbig ◽  
Gary S. Schaal
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Modular Approach ◽  
Democratic Deliberation ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Valid Measurement ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Democratic Performance ◽  
General Measurement

Although measuring democratic deliberation is necessary for a valid measurement of the performance of democracies, it poses serious theoretical and methodological challenges. The most serious problem in the context of research on democratic performance is the need for a theoretical and methodological approach for “upscaling” the measurement of deliberation from the micro and meso level to the macro level. The systemic approach offers a useful framework for this purpose. Building on this framework, this article offers a modular approach consisting of four parameters for conceptualization, measurement, and aggregation which can be adjusted to make the measurement of democratic deliberation compatible with the various general measurement approaches adopted by different scholars.

scholarly journals ‘PALE FACE’/ ‘POINTY FACE’: SA criminology in denial

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Henkeman*
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
South African ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Intersectional Theory ◽  
Key Aspects

This paper responds to key aspects of Bill Dixon’s article, Understanding ‘Pointy Face’: What is criminology for? It suggests that criminology should unambiguously be ‘for’ social justice in South Africa’s transhistorically unequal context. South African prison statistics are used as a conceptual shortcut to briefly highlight racialised constructions of crime, the criminal and the criminologist. A trans-disciplinary conceptual approach, as a more socially just way to understand violent crime in South Africa, is proposed. A methodological framework,which draws on the notion of cultural-structural-direct violenceand intersectional theory,is presented. These extend Bill Dixon’s call for criminology to include history, structure, human psyche and biography5 and resonates with Biko Agozino’s call for a ‘counter-colonial’ criminology.The paper ends by returning the Eurocentric gaze of most South African criminologists, calling them out on their denial about trans-historical violence that implicates ‘Pale Face’ in the violence of ‘Pointy Face’.

scholarly journals Constructive realism: advantages of ontology and methodology

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 04009
Author(s):  
Andrey Tcytcarev ◽  
Ruslan Bazhenov ◽  
Elena Amineva ◽  
Aleksander Pronin
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Radical Constructivism ◽  
Constructive Realism ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Worldview

This article attempts to reveal and analyse the advantages of constructive realism as a methodological framework of contemporary science. Comparing realism and constructivism as two divergent positions in epistemology in their extreme forms, we mention their downsides. These are the epistemological component for extreme realism and the ontological component for radical constructivism. We indicate that the concept of our study is characterized with the best balance of ontology and gnoseology and it allows overcoming ontological and epistemological difficulties associated with constructivism and realism correspondingly. We conclude that constructive realism may facilitate the development of the scientific worldview pertinent to modern knowledge and ready to respond the inherent methodological challenges that science faces.

scholarly journals Conceptual Approach to Competitive and Innovative Sustainability Research of Meso-Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 04038
Author(s):  
Galina Dovlatova ◽  
Anton Agafonov ◽  
Nаtalia Vasilyuk ◽  
Anatoliy Chistyakov
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Development Trajectory ◽  
Innovation Economy

The article presents the institutional conditions identified by the authors of the real exit of the meso-level from the crisis management model to the innovation development trajectory, conditioned by the transition to a favorable innovation-investment climate (ability to develop, introduction of innovative products and implementation of competitive goods and services). The development of the Russian economy requires large-scale innovation transformations at all levels of the hierarchy. In modern economic conditions, the formation of an appropriate level of innovation economy in Russia is due to the transition of meso-level economic systems to an innovative development path, which helps to identify effective innovation investment opportunities and their further application by one hundred percent. In this regard, in the framework of the study of the economic category of “innovation- investment attractiveness ” attention has been increasing recently not only to the cross-country aspect, but also to the study of mesosystems within countries. In our opinion, for the growth of the national economy of Russia there is a foreign trade with the participants by reducing barriers and risks for the development of entrepreneurial activity. The article is of interest to researchers, specialists in the field of economics and management, teachers, analysts, graduate students, undergraduates and students of economic universities.

scholarly journals Conflict, Dialogue and Justice: Exploring Global Citizenship Education as a Generative Social Justice Project

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette Shultz
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Conventional Models

If we are to live in this extensively interconnected world we need to find ways to understand the edges of democracy – those places where people and lives are moved to the margins and silenced – and to provide new ways to enact citizenship in its multiple locations with and beyond nation states. Drawing on theoretical understandings of deliberative democracy as a challenge to conventional models of liberal democracy, and the praxis of conflict transformation, this article frames processes of social justice as a platform for citizenship education. It examines the way that addressing conflict involves understanding the complexity of social change within a globalized and globalizing world. The conclusions provide conceptualizations for co-creating educational processes of engagement that work to provide expansive inclusion.

Seven theses on critical empathy: a methodological framework for ‘unsavory’ populations

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879412110195
Author(s):  
Alexis de Coning
Keyword(s):  
Close Contact ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Qualitative Literature

Qualitative researchers of ‘unsavory’ populations experience a complex range of emotions as they sustain close contact with people and communities that are deemed reprehensible, dangerous, or toxic. Empathy, in particular, raises ethical and methodological challenges for scholars who must build rapport with people who may perpetuate racism, sexism, xenophobia, and so on. Drawing on existing qualitative literature and ethnographic fieldwork, I propose critical empathy as a methodological framework to account for the difficult and sometimes problematic emotional dimensions of research on ‘unsavory’ populations. Instead of trying to resolve the tensions between empathy and critique, critical empathy compels us to grapple with these tensions and make them apparent in our work.

scholarly journals Tech giants versus nation states: prospects for digital multipolarity

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
D. Zhukov
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Chinese Model ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Predictive Study

This paper presents a political and predictive study of relationship between nation states and large corporations (tech giants) in relation to socially relevant online platforms (SROP). The key question of the article: will the current dominance of global SROP increase, or will they be fragmented (that is the separation of relatively isolated national or meta-regional segments) under the influence of nation states’ intention to protect their sovereignty. A methodological framework includes the following tools: (1) a discourse analysis of the research literature, (2) constructing predictive scenarios based on implicit models revealed in reviewed publications. Despite the search for some kind of control that nation states can have over global SROP (specifically, in India and Turkey), the Chinese model of total fragmentation of SROP is gaining support. Global SROP, as a manifestation of non-public and illegitimate power of tech giants, have transformed the landscape of contemporary international relations. A systemic virtualization of politics reduces the capacity of nation states to survive in a medium where social relations, identity, political behavior, and historical memory are formed and destructed through the intangible impact of global actors and unpredictable virtual cataclysms. The author draws a conclusion that the presumption of multipolarity of the world makes the fragmentation of SROP the only positive scenario. The intention of some governments to make do with only regulating the global tech giants can be interpreted as an illusion that threatens the survival of nation states.

Tolerant Dimensions Of Cultural Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire: The Albanian Community, 1800–1912

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Gawrych
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Scholars who have conducted research on the different peoples of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have, as a general rule, focused their studies on the process by which the various national minorities gained their independence from “Turkish” rule. To study this complex problem, historians of the Balkans and of Middle Eastern countries other than Turkey have selected a methodological framework which seeks to analyze the nature of the struggles that led to the eventual emergence of nation-states such as Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, and Syria.

scholarly journals Conceptual approach to the formation of innovation strategies of economic systems of the micro- and meso-level based on self-organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 05044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Uvarova ◽  
Anatoly Bukreev ◽  
Vyacheslav Vlasenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Innovation Strategy ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
Equilibrium Economic ◽  
Non Equilibrium

In modern conditions, sustainable development of the economy of the country and regions inherently corresponds to the principle of innovation. The principle postulates the need to accelerate the development of innovation in the process of constant changes in a non-equilibrium economic system. The authors propose to ensure the accelerated development of innovations by implementing a scientifically based innovation strategy of regional enterprises. In this case, the concept of the development of strategies of the enterprise and the region, according to the authors, should be based on adapting the foresight methodology to the processes of self-organization of the system, including methodological tools for creating regional “points of innovation growth” taking into account the specifics of the region.

A Methodological Framework of Stance-Taking and Appraisal in the Parliament

2019 ◽  
pp. 116-155
Author(s):  
Rahma Said Albusafi
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Political Institution ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Sequential Nature

The chapter proposes a methodological framework to study stance/appraisal in parliamentary discourse. Little previous research exists on the marking of stance/appraisal, despite its pervasiveness in such contexts. The researcher is currently unaware of any framework that has been developed to help analysts situate the phenomenon of stance-taking in parliamentary discourse. The first section defines the concept of parliament and discusses its roles as a political institution. The second section highlights specific features relevant to the nature of interaction in parliaments by considering the sequential nature of its discourse, shedding light on how stance is uttered and embedded in both parliamentary questions and parliamentary answers. The final section presents a proposed methodological framework combining Van Dijk's conceptual approach on parliamentary context, Du Bois's stance triangle, Ilie's account on political arguments, and Martin and White's Appraisal Framework to contextually and theoretically frame stance-taking in parliamentary discourse.

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