Dr. Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann

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Dr. Osterberg-Kaufmann erforscht, wie Menschen in unterschiedlichen Kulturen und Kontexten Demokratie verstehen und definieren. Sie entwickelt Methoden, um diese vielfältigen Demokratieverständnisse empirisch zu erfassen und zu messen – jenseits westlich-liberaler Standardkonzepte. Ihre Expertise hilft, Demokratisierungsprozesse und Legitimitätswahrnehmungen in verschiedenen Gesellschaften zu analysieren.

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Dr. Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann

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Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät

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Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Empirische Sozialforschung

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• VA: Messung von Demokratieverständnis. Methodendiskussion.

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  Förderer: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Zeitraum: 08/2018 - 08/2018 Projektleitung: Dr. Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann

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• Challenges in conceptualizing and measuring meanings and understandings of democracy

  2020

  Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft · 56 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract Research on meanings and understandings of democracy is growing. But besides useful theoretical and empirical insights, this research produces open questions concerning the conceptualization and the measurement of meanings of democracy. This special section—and especially this introductory paper and the different contributions—reflect on several key challenges and thereby go beyond the debate about advantages and disadvantages of open and closed questions measuring meanings of democracy in surveys. Both conceptualization and measurement have different challenges which researchers should take into account when developing research designs, specifically by doing cross-cultural comparisons. Other challenges are connected to the debate on universalism versus relativism and the usage of various terms, which are often not clearly defined. This paper offers an analytical framework to distinguish between meanings and understandings of democracy, thereby integrating comparative political theory and empirical democracy research through inductive and deductive approaches. And it gives an overview of the contributions of this special section. In sum, research on meanings and understandings of democracy is needed to gain a better picture of political cultures around the world.

• Measuring meanings of democracy—methods of differentiation

  2020

  Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft · 13 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract The question of the contested nature of the concept of democracy is neither in doubt within the political science debate, nor new. What is new, however, is the attention paid to the knowledge of competing ideas of democracy in literature. The development of concepts of the “D-word” beyond Eurocentric hegemony was accompanied by a critical review of methodological approaches. Against the background of these methodological challenges, the requirements for more differentiated or mixed methodological approaches are discussed in the literature. In this article, a combined approach of the repertory grid and the semantic differential methods is proposed to enrich the innovative methodological dynamics of investigating the meaning of democracy. The article gives an introduction to the repertory grid method and illustrates, with a case study, how the Singaporean middle-class views democracy. These repertory grid face-to-face interviews serve as a starting point for the creation of valid polarity profiles for the semantic differential method—a method which, like the repertory grid, is used to measure the connotative or affective meaning of objects, but in a quantitative design so that representativeness can be achieved. Through this approach, the constructivist approach of repertory grid is partly combined with positivistic survey research, and thus the approach is inductive with deductive research.

• Conceptualizing Difference

  2023

  Democratic Theory · 10 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract This article formulates the concept of democracy as a configuration to overcome the rigid universalist, liberal-proceduralist dominated conceptions of democracy that define invariant core elements and combine them with culturally individualistic features. Instead, the approach presented here focuses on the basic principles behind democracy. Lincoln's often-criticized broad definition of democracy as “government by, of, and for the people” provides the opportunity for an open, transglobal approach that focuses on the premise of political self-efficacy for all citizens and portrays democracy not as a mechanism but as a way of life. Political self-efficacy can be institutionalized in different ways, so this contribution refers to specific models of democracy (e.g., liberal, republican, or communitarian).

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