field notes

anwogessel@yahoo.de (anonym) has some skepticism (see email), generally makes me wonder whether there are people who are just too angry and distrustful to participate, or whether they indeed have a point, as in:

• is this indoctrination?
• does this only attract like-minded people?
• shouldn't this be left to pluralism? (ha!)

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DGB Telefonat

Mit Anette Düring, Regionsvorsitzende, hatte Email gelesen, war extrem aufgebracht, ärgerlich, sie hat kein Interesse daran. oh man, manchmal verstehe ich diese Welt einfach nicht. Ich habe beim DGB Bremen (endlich) jemanden telefonisch erreicht, und die Frau (Vorsitzende Bremen) war extrem aufgebracht, sie hätten an sowas kein Interesse, würden mir auch nicht sagen warum, und auf emails wie meine bräuchte sie auch nicht zu antworten.

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notes on recruiting:

you have to start somewhere, that’s pretty hard. You need trust, and some structure. That leads back to corporatism (as social capital, not as interest representation), and as harbingers of a sense of citizenship – and to social capital proper (people who know people).

It’s not even clear whether a proper random sample (say, by drawing from the books) would be that much better – maybe it would be, maybe not. Maybe it would lack the kind of public spiritness that this process selects for.

Also, this kind of recruitment is a lot more open – but systematically biased in many ways.

Good news: it also serves as its own PR; more people get to know about this thing, they had a chance to participate (which they would never have had if only random luck had chosen them).

Besides, it’s not clear that we need random sampling, maybe we need theoretical sa

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hate mail auf Facebook

Nicola Schöning Das ist doch totaler Quatsch, würde bedeuten ich habe umsonst drei Jahre tagein tagaus das "tolle" deutsche Steuerrecht gepaukt....ich hab zu der Zeit Urlaub, aber nach dem Stress ist mir meine Freizeit heilig, anstatt mir so einen Quatsch anzuhören...

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afraid of unemployed people

why are they so afraid? do they resent academia?

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videoconference with facilitators

think through the didactics, do something tangible, where people can move, do stuff. maybe a ballet for the economic cycle, also something for tax base and schedule do a fishbowl after the learning phase, to harvest questions (“ich hab’ das so verstanden”) problematize (this is via Anne) models; they always only tell part of the story begin the first round by telling stories don’t explain more outside of groups: we’re doing this because we want to advance to the stuff that people can disagree on; not factual questions, those are the most interesting ones consider doing dinner outside get mic and speakers figure out a video or something else that will tease on people, make them think about this cc moderators do the press conference outside? do a fishbowl for a press conference get fruit for coffee breaks get a fireplace remember to work out