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Submission Plan Meeting

Date: 2014-10-02

Attending: Martin Nonhoff, Maximilian Held

Minutes

  • SES data has not been gathered so far, for time and privacy reasons; Nonhoff urges that it be gathered soon in a simple form. Data can only be used in the aggregate for privacy reasons.
  • In light of the little remaining time until planned submission, Max should always plan in terms of chapters to be submitted, and always be working on/towards a chapter, no other intermediary or cross-cutting texts. Similarly, other events and/or presentations will be cut as far as possible.
  • Max will submit a table of contents including deadlines and content for individual dissertation chapters by Oct 6.
  • There needs to be an updated abstract or something, establishing the connection again between methods, results and research questions

Later that day, with Olaf Groh-Samberg

  • Max should present preliminary results at the Doctoral Colloquium in the Fall, but with minimal preparation for the presentation. Just work in progress.
  • A meeting with OGS has been scheduled.

Dissertation Structure, Deadlines

this structure will not be updated; to sort by deadline, progress and updates, check https://github.com/maxheld83/schumpermas/milestones instead

the subitems of the below list are included as issues.

  1. Introduction [based on introduction]
    • why does any of the following matter?
    • because the welfare state (or mixed economy) is based on good taxation, and taxation is in crisis.
    • because representative/pluralist democracy faces structural (dealignment) and inherent challenges (public choice); tax is that issue where these problems intersect.
    • these possible crises of democracy and taxation may have a profound effect on social and political equality
    • Draft completed by 2014-03-15
  2. Research Question [based on proposal]
    • Explicates research question at the intersection of the literature on (subjective understandings of) tax, and (empirical research on) deliberative democracy
    • includes literature review of tax misunderstandings/disagreements and empirical deliberative democracy
    • Why tax is a good case; and more than a case.
    • Why deliberation is a good method; and more than a method.
    • Draft completed by 2014-01-31
  3. Methods-1 (CiviCon)
    • explicates the treatment condition; in this case, the CiviCon Citizen Conference
    • contextualizes the CiviCon format within existing literature, formats, conflicts, tradeoffs
    • documents structure, experts, sample, etc. of CiviCon
    • reports on the validity, reliability of the treatment in deliberative terms, including citizen and moderator feedback.
    • Draft completed by 2014-01-15
  4. Methods-2 (Q-Method)
    • explicates the data; in this case, Q-Sorts
    • contextualizes Q-methodology within existing literature, alternative formats, tradeoffs
    • documents q-sampling (of statements), condition of instruction etc.
    • argues how/why q-methodology is a fitting method for the (deliberative + tax) research question
    • Draft completed by 2014-11-07
  5. Results-1 (Factors)
    • reports correlations, factors from pre- and post-sort.
    • factor interpretation in substantive terms of tax and the economy.
    • Draft completed by 2014-11-24
  6. Results-2 (Treatment Effect)
    • reports changes in factor composition and loadings between pre- and post-sort.
    • factor interpretation in terms of deliberative democracy (as per Niemeyer: beliefs, values, preferences)
    • testing (increased) meta-consensus and intersubjective rationality (aka consistency)
    • additional qualitative analyses of selected, cursorily transcripted discussions from CiviCon-1
    • Draft completed by 2014-12-23
  7. Discussion
    • how do the results relate to the posed research question?
    • what are possible issues of validity, reliability (both in terms of the theoretical demands of q, and the theoretical demands of the deliberative "treatment")?
    • how does this add to the literature on the subjectivity on taxation? (fka as "misunderstandings")
    • how does this add to the literature on empirical effects of deliberation?
    • how does this add to the canon of q-studies?
    • Draft completed by 2015-02-28
  8. Conclusion
    • what does this add to the debate on the crises of the welfare/tax state?
    • what does this add to the debate on the crises of pluralist/representative democracy?
    • Draft completed by 2015-03-31

Schumpermas are Max Helds drafts on taxation and democracy, including his dissertation at BIGSSS.

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