Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

Let me identify myself as another proponent of the informative and detailed footnote. I agree wholeheartedly with Marcus's position that the apparatus for the work that we submit or publish is a major resource for powerfully augmenting the transparency of our work. We should give detailed guidance o...

The questions that Alan and Tim have posed for APD researchers and scholars are extremely important -- and suggest that those of us in APD ought to up our game. For most of us transparency is in the apparatus, in the self-consciousness with which we discuss our evidence, and in the robustness of our...

As a scholar of American political development I have to express my enormous gratitude for this deliberative process. DART strikes me as a threat, on balance, to APD scholarship -- yet APD scholarship has had a genuinely productive impact on political science and shows every sign of continuing to ha...