Citizens’ Experiences of a Policy-Ridden Environment: A Methodological Contribution to Feedback Studies based on Qualitative Secondary Analysis
(2022) Bulletin of Sociological Methodology — Vol. 156, n° 1, p. 124-157 (2022)
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- For the past ten years, feedback studies on mass publics have gained renewed scholarly attention. Taking stock of the developments in the existing literature, prominent scholars have called to further expand this body of scholarship beyond citizens’ experiences with single policies to account, instead, for their lived, multiple, policy experiences. However, methodologically, acknowledging the multiplicity of citizens’ policy experiences in Western Europe challenges (i) the research designs and (ii) the causal inferences that are common in this body of work. In this article, we discuss how we tackled both challenges by leveraging the possibilities of qualitative secondary analysis. In response to the first challenge, we discuss our approach that applies a comparative and longitudinal qualitative secondary data analysis with no a priori policy selection. We also report on the operationalization of multiple policy experiences and perceptions in policy-selection-free datasets. In response to the second challenge, we elaborate theoretically on a third feedback mechanism which is normative and collective. We also discuss how we empirically study collective norms linked to multiple policy experiences from individual-level data. In doing so, we discuss the contributions and limitations of our own approach based on a collective and configurative qualitative secondary analysis to respond to the methodological challenges raised by calls to expand feedback studies on mass publics.
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Dupuy, C., Teuber, R. F., & Van Ingelgom, V. (2022). Citizens’ Experiences of a Policy-Ridden Environment: A Methodological Contribution to Feedback Studies based on Qualitative Secondary Analysis. Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, 156(1), 124-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/07591063221132342 (Original work published 2022)