Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

Obviously, living in a democracy, we tend to think of transparency as the highest good. It is the primary safeguard against corruption and abuse of power. And in my own subfield of political theory, it is a constant: we all have access to the same "data" (books and articles in political th...

Jenny Mansbridge is completely right re: LeCour, posting data was not the issue that flagged his dishonesty, and we disserve the discussion when we misstate the facts. The issue raised about the Moravcsik et al piece is of a different nature and has nothing to do with honesty or dishonesty: namely t...

I'm entering this discussion from a different subfield of political theory. Work in our subfield also too often provides in-text references simply noting the source without page number. But I find that when the citation format is footnotes, where more detail is permitted, this is less often the case...

Since active citation is one of the issues that potentially pertains to my own subfield of political theory, I wanted to note an interesting fact. With journals moving to "scientific notation" (in text reference to author, year, and page number) over the past 10 or 20 years, endnotes are i...

Having just read the introduction to the Comparative Politics newsletter, I found the lead editorial outlining the "myths" of DA-RT to be (presumably unintentionally) quite ideological. These are not “myths”: they are claims of how the DA-RT principles may be--and in some individual cases ...

I confess that I feel a little out of place contributing to this website, because in one sense DA-RT has nothing to do with political theory. The fact is that transparency is a problem for quantitative political scientists, because it depends on data that is not itself explained in the course of the...