Reflexive Openness as Collaborative Methodology

Everyday Democracy Indicators? How the Study of Democracy Illuminates the Value (and Challenges) of Collaborative Methodologies

“…More specifically, the production of “participatory numbers” relies on participants to define key terms and potential measures and, at times, to collect data (Gaillard et al 2016). In this symposium alone, authors apply collaborative methodologies to the study of political trust (Dorussen, Bakaki, and Kolbe 2021), peace (Levy and Firchow 2021; Thomson 2021), and climate change (Asiamah, Awal, and MacLean 2021). Collaborative methodologies promise many benefits, but chief among them is a new balance between subjectivity and objectivity.…”