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Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

on behalf of the APSA Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
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    Cluster I: Fundamentals

    Working groups considering fundamental questions concerning the pursuit of transparency in qualitative empirical research, which cut across the particular forms of research in which qualitative scholars engage

    • I.1. Ontological/Epistemological Priors

      How do understandings of transparency turn on ontological and/or epistemological priors?

    • I.2. Research Ethics: Human Subjects and Research Openness

      How should the pursuit of transparency interface with ethical obligations to protect human subjects?

    • I.3. Power and Institutionalization

      Costs, benefits, and practicalities of different ways of institutionalizing the promotion of research transparency – and their interaction with power and resource differentials in the profession

    Cluster II: Forms of Evidence

    Working groups considering what it means to be transparent when working with two kinds of empirical sources commonly considered by qualitative researchers.

    • II.1. Text-based Sources

      How are and how should scholars be transparent about working with primary and secondary text-based sources

    • II.2. Evidence from Researcher Interactions with Human Participants

      How are and how should scholars be transparent when using first-hand observations of, or interactions with, human participants as sources

    Cluster III: Analytic Approaches and Methodologies

    Working groups considering distinctive ways of linking our empirical observations to our interpretations, inferences, or claims

    • III.1. Comparative Methods and Process Tracing

      How are and how should scholars be transparent in their use of comparative and process-tracing methods?

    • III.2. Interpretive Methods

      What does transparency mean for various interpretive methodologies, and how are its value and limits understood by interpretive scholars?

    • III.3. Ethnography and Participant Observation

      How are and how should scholars be transparent in their use of ethnographic methods?

    • III.4. Set-Theoretic Approaches, esp. QCA

      How are and how should scholars be transparent in their use of algorithmic forms of analysis of qualitative data?

    • III.5. Content Analysis

      How are and how should scholars be transparent when using non-automated forms of content analysis?

    Cluster IV: Research Settings/Topics

    Working groups considering particular contexts or substantive topics that raise distinctive issues for the pursuit of transparency.

    • IV.1. Authoritarian/Repressive Political Regimes

      What are the distinctive transparency challenges that arise for research in authoritarian or repressive political regimes?

    • IV.2. Settings of Political Violence

      What are the distinctive transparency challenges that arise for research in settings of political violence?

    • IV.3. Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations

      What are the distinctive transparency challenges that arise for research in settings of political violence?

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Resources

We link here to a number of resources relating to research transparency in political science and other social sciences:


  • "Transparency in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: A Symposium." Spring 2015 issue of QMMR, the newsletter of the APSA's Organized Section on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
  • Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT official site)
  • Dialogue on DA-RT
  • “Openness in Political Science,” Symposium in January 2014 issue of PS: Political Science and Politics.
  • FAQs on APSR Transparency Policy
  • Perspectives on Politics Guidelines on Evidentiary Support and Research Transparency
  • APSA Guide to Professional Ethics, Rights and Freedoms
  • Center for Open Science, sponsor of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines for journals and of the Open Science Framework.
  • Proposal for the Qualitative Transparency Deliberations, as voted on by the QMMR section in December 2015/January 2016 .
  • DA-RT Symposium in Spring 2016 Newsletter of the APSA's Organized Section for Comparative Politics
  • Roundtable 'Debating DA-RT' and 'Friendly Fire' Exchange over 'Qualitative Transparency' in the Winter 2016 Newsletter of the APSA's Organized Section for International History and Politics
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