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Trust, Transparency, and Replication in Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2017

David D. Laitin  and
Rob Reich
David D. Laitin
Affiliation:
Stanford University
Rob Reich
Affiliation:
Stanford University
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Abstract

Striving better to uncover causal effects, political science is amid a revolution in micro-empirical research designs and experimental methods. This methodological development—although quite promising in delivering new findings and discovering the mechanisms that underlie previously known associations—raises new and unnerving ethical issues that have yet to be confronted by our profession. We believe that addressing these issues proactively by generating strong, internal norms of disciplinary regulation is preferable to reactive measures, which often come in the wake of public exposés and can lead to externally imposed regulations or centrally imposed internal policing.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 172 - 175
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 

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