1st.Reading:Schaffer, Frederic Charles (2014): „Thin Descriptions: The Limits of Survey Research on the Meaning of Democracy.“
1st.Questaion: Considering the advantages and disadvantages of large-N survey and ethnographic research and the different disciplinary perspectives discussed in the article, how would you approach empirical democracy research?
2nd.Readings: Osterberg-Kaufmann, Norma, Toralf Stark and Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach (2020): “Challenges in conceptualizing and measuring meanings and understandings of democracy”. Welzel, Christian (2021): “Meanings of democracy: mapping lay perceptions on scholarly norms.”
Schaffer 1998. Democracy in Translation. Understanding politics in an unfamiliar culture.
2nd.Question: What connections do you see between the much discussed crisis or decline of liberal democracy in recent years and the issues we have so far discussed in our course?
3rd.Readings: Kaviraj, Sudipta (2020): Democracy and the “Non-Nation-State”
Barkey et al (2021) Intro
Barkey Naresh (2021) India Turkey
3rd.Question: How do economics and democracy relate? You can draw on the texts we read for Indonesia and India or embed these in broader and more general discussions?
4th.Readings: Aspinall Berenschot Democracy for Sale 2019
Warburton Aspinall et al: this one just make a small summary.