Focus Groups: From Qualitative Data Generation to Analysis

Ingelgom, Virginie Van

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“…This method informs the researcher on what makes sense for the participants, their individual and collective experiences. This setting (semi‐structured discussion with between five and eight participants) allows studying how citizens talk and think about political issues in their own words through interaction with their peers, as well as investigating the co‐construction of meanings and narratives, and how they appear in discussions (Morgan, 1996: 139; Van Ingelgom, 2020: 1193).…”

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Narrating Europe: (Re‐)constructed and Contested Visions of the European Project in Citizens' Discourse

Beaudonnet

Belot

Caune

et al. 2022

J of Common Market Studies

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Changes in public opinion and civil society over the last decade have shown that citizens, particularly in old EU Member States, have developed more complex attitudes towards European integration. While the European project was previously generally described as a teleological depoliticized project, aiming at building peace and comforting growth, different competing visions of the European project are nowadays acknowledged and surface among the public on occasions, like referendums or treaty negotiations. While EU official narratives are documented by studies on the European institutions or the visions of leaders and parties, their empirical analysis at the citizens' level is still fragmented. Using focus group data in four countries (France, Portugal, Italy and Belgium) and three social groups (21 group interviews), we provide a comparative qualitative answer to how citizens envision European integration. Our results show that, first, official narratives do not fail to reach citizens, but they are also loosened, contested, and do not systematically produce a sense of common belonging. Second, they highlight the importance of socio-economic contexts, as well as national and personal experience in the re-appropriation of these narratives.

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Narrating Europe: (Re‐)constructed and Contested Visions of the European Project in Citizens' Discourse

Beaudonnet

Belot

Caune

et al. 2022

J of Common Market Studies

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“…In addition, both the interviews and the focus groups of each three main datasets were non-directive in their moderation, and participants were allowed to talk as much or as little as they please about any topic or issue (Van Ingelgom, 2020). Focus groups participants, in particular, could thereby explore and further discuss anything beyond the questions asked by the primary researchers.…”

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“…By studying the underlying normative assumptions of the discussion and how some of them build consensus, we can access the normative legitimations they share regarding the EU free movement policy -in that case, they agree on the fact that this policy should allow for a fair market competition, while they disagree on the extent to which this is what actually happens. More generally, because most of our data are focus group data, we have access to the negotiation of meanings through intra-and inter-personal debates (Van Ingelgom, 2020), thereby grounding our analysis of shared meanings and legitimations -while also allowing individuals to express (de)legitimations that are not shared by other research participants.…”

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Citizens’ experiences of a policy-ridden environment: A methodological contribution to feedback studies based on qualitative secondary analysis

Dupuy¹,

Teuber²,

Ingelgom

2022

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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Les expériences des citoyen.nes dans un environnement saturé de politiques publiques. Une contribution méthodologique aux études sur les policy feedbacks depuis l'analyse secondaire de données qualitatives. Au cours des dix dernières années, les études sur les effets-retourdes politiques publiques sur les citoyen.nes (qu’on désigne par policy feedbacks) ont connu un regain d’intérêt. Analysant ces récents développements, plusieurs appels ont été lancés pour élargir ce courant de recherches au-delà des expériences que les citoyen.nes font d’une politique spécifique pour tenir compte, au contraire, de la multiplicité des expériences de politique publique qu'elles et ils ont au cours de leur vie quotidienne. Sur le plan méthodologique cependant, la reconnaissance de la multiplicité des expériences de politiques publiques des citoyen.nes en Europe de l'Ouest remet en question (i) les dispositifs empiriques de recherche et (ii) les inférences causales qui sont courantes dans cette littérature. Dans cet article, nous expliquons comment nous avons relevé ces deux défis en tirant parti des possibilités offertes par l’analyse secondaire qualitative. En réponse au premier défi, nous discutons notre approche, une analyse qualitative comparative et longitudinale de données secondaires sans sélection a priori des politiques publiques considérées. Nous présentons comment nous opérationnalisons dans ces données les expériences et les perceptions multiples des politiques publiques des citoyen.nes. En réponse au deuxième défi, nous construisons théoriquement un troisième mécanisme de feedback, qui est normatif et collectif. Nous discutons également de la manière dont nous étudions empiriquement les normes collectives liées aux expériences multiples de politique publique à partir de données individuelles.

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“…Analysing focus group discussions makes it possible to unravel the complex relationships citizens have with representative democracy by allowing them to express and confront their views on politics through agreement and disagreement (Duchesne, 2017;Morgan, 2010;Van Ingelgom, 2020). The focus group data used in this article were collected between April 2019 and February 2020 in the framework of the EOS RepResent project (FNRS-FWO no.…”

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“…The Supplementary File 1 provides background information on the participants, illustrating the heterogeneity of their socio-demographic profiles. The sampling was theoretically driven, but did not necessarily aim for saturation; instead, comparison was key, and the sampling relies more on the principle of diversity (Van Ingelgom, 2020). Sampling data based on diversity, rather than on saturation or generalizing findings to a larger population, was instrumental in gaining the theoretical traction essential for this type of analysis.…”

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Resentment and Coping With the Democratic Dilemma

Cells

Knops²,

Ingelgom³

et al. 2021

PaG

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Resentment is a complex, multi-layered emotion, within which perceptions of unfairness and feelings of anger are central. When linked to politics, it has predominantly been associated with the alleged “crisis of representative democracy” and populism. However, recent studies have shown that resentment can intervene positively in people’s relations to politics and political institutions by facilitating certain types of political participation (Capelos & Demertzis, 2018). Despite this, the concept of resentment, and hence its role in contemporary representative democracy, is often poorly defined, with empirical investigations of its manifestation(s) remaining scarce. Borrowing a conceptualization of resentment as “resentful affectivity,” our article draws on the analysis of focus groups carried out in Belgium (2019–2020) with individuals where resentful affectivity is likely to be observed (i.e., contemporary movements of contestation such as the Yellow Vests, Youth for Climate, and individuals who occupy a socially disadvantaged position). We find that experiences of intense anger, fear, disappointment, and the unfairness of representative democracy, i.e., of how representative democracy works on the ground, coexist simultaneously with remaining hopes in the democratic system. We show how this complex blend of emotions confronts citizens with what we call a “democratic dilemma.” We document the different ways in which citizens cope with this dilemma and conclude by highlighting both the positive and negative ways in which resentment intervenes in the contemporary “crisis of representative democracy.”

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Focus Groups: From Qualitative Data Generation to Analysis

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Narrating Europe: (Re‐)constructed and Contested Visions of the European Project in Citizens' Discourse

Narrating Europe: (Re‐)constructed and Contested Visions of the European Project in Citizens' Discourse

Citizens’ experiences of a policy-ridden environment: A methodological contribution to feedback studies based on qualitative secondary analysis

Resentment and Coping With the Democratic Dilemma

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