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In person icon Meaning of Democracy: Methods to Measure and Empirical Findings I

Comparative Politics
Democracy
Methods
P226
Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Toralf Stark
University of Duisburg-Essen

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Tuesday 11:15 - 13:00 BST (25/08/2020)

Abstract

The discussions and potential issues of the panel of non-western imprints provide us with insights into the challenges of ConfDem's data collection and analysis. Our key question is: How can we measure the meanings of democracy and identify key attributes? Papers proposing an inductive or a deductive approach are addressed in this panel. As with inductive approaches, deductive approaches pose different challenges, which will then be discussed in a problem-oriented manner on the basis of previous considerations and empirical research experience. The topic Empirical Findings on the Meaning of Democracy is devoted to the question of whether and, if so, in what structural form the ideas on ConfDem can be found in reality. This means that we want to know how consistent the meaning of democracy is in reality. Here we would like to discuss empirical data from different regions of the world that have been collected through an inductive or deductive methodological approach in order to capture the meaning of democracy on a global scale.

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