{"title":"Conceptual Contestation: An Empirical Approach","authors":"J. Gerring, L. Cojocaru","doi":"10.1086/727976","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Conceptual disagreement has been recognized as a key feature of language since time immemorial. Yet, no attempt has been made to measure the degree of conceptual disagreement that exists or to compile a list of concepts identified as essentially contested. Accordingly, it is unclear how one might distinguish contested from uncontested concepts or test propositions about the causes of contestation. This research note begins by introducing an approach to measuring conceptual contestation within social science. Next, we explore factors that may help to explain variation in conceptual contestation. We find that the characteristics of concepts—their value, abstraction, and normativity—explain most of the variability in conceptual contestation.","PeriodicalId":46912,"journal":{"name":"Polity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Polity","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727976","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Conceptual disagreement has been recognized as a key feature of language since time immemorial. Yet, no attempt has been made to measure the degree of conceptual disagreement that exists or to compile a list of concepts identified as essentially contested. Accordingly, it is unclear how one might distinguish contested from uncontested concepts or test propositions about the causes of contestation. This research note begins by introducing an approach to measuring conceptual contestation within social science. Next, we explore factors that may help to explain variation in conceptual contestation. We find that the characteristics of concepts—their value, abstraction, and normativity—explain most of the variability in conceptual contestation.
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Since its inception in 1968, Polity has been committed to the publication of scholarship reflecting the full variety of approaches to the study of politics. As journals have become more specialized and less accessible to many within the discipline of political science, Polity has remained ecumenical. The editor and editorial board welcome articles intended to be of interest to an entire field (e.g., political theory or international politics) within political science, to the discipline as a whole, and to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Scholarship of this type promises to be highly "productive" - that is, to stimulate other scholars to ask fresh questions and reconsider conventional assumptions.
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