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APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter in Spring 2016 Volume 26, Issue 1, Spring Comparative Politics Newsletter The Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association Editors: Matt Golder ([email protected]), Sona N. Golder ([email protected]) Editorial Assistant: Charles Crabtree, Yaoyao Dai Editorial Board: Molly Ariotti, Xun Cao, Elizabeth C. Carlson, Kostanca Dhima, Amanda Fidalgo, Vineeta Yadav, Joseph Wright Contents Letter from the Editors byMattGolderandSonaN.Golder .....................................................................1 I. Symposium: Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) Source Documents on DA-RT 2012 DA-RT Changes to APSA’s Ethics Guide .................................................................................10 2014 Journal Editors Transparency Statement ................................................................................11 2013 Guidelines for Data Access and Research Transparency for Qualitative Research in Political Science ..........................13 2013 Guidelines for Data Access and Research Transparency for Quantitative Research in Political Science .........................21 Critics The Dark Side of DA-RT byLeeAnnFujii....................................................................................25 Transparency, Research Integrity, and Multiple Methods byPeterA.Hall........................................................28 DA-RT and the Social Conditions of Knowledge Production in Political Science byMalaHtun ....................................32 Area Studies and the Cost of Prematurely Implementing DA-RT byMarcLynch .................................................36 Avant-Garde or Dogmatic? DA-RT in the Mirror of the Social Sciences by Rudra Sil and Guzmán Castro, with Anna Calasanti . 40 Response DA-RT: Aspirations and Anxieties byColinElmanandArthurLupia ............................................................44 Editors’ Thoughts CPS Editors’ Response to DA-RT Symposium byBenAnsellandDavidSamuels .................................................52 Implementing DA-RT Principles in the American Political Science Review by Marijke Breuning and John Ishiyama . 54 Editorial Trust, Gatekeeping, and Unintended Consequences byDeborahYashar ................................................57 II. Symposium: Politics of Space Improving the Interpretability and Research Transparency of Maps by Molly Ariotti and Charles Crabtree . 65 Accounting for Space in Comparative Political Analysis by Robert J. Franzese and Jude C. Hays . 72 The Politics of Residential Choice byIrisHui .................................................................................76 From Votes to Seats in Multi-party Plurality Electoral Systems by Ron Johnston, David Manley, Kelvyn Jones, and Charles Pattie . 82 Space and Place in Political Geography byJohnO’Loughlin ....................................................................90 The Diffusion of Public Policies: Expanding the Focus in Time and inSpace by Carina Schmitt . .93 III. Data Introducing the Ill Treatment & Torture (ITT) Data by Courtenay R. Conrad and Will H. Moore . 98 IV. Other Contributors .............................................................................................................100 Announcements and Additional Information ................................................................................107 http://comparativenewsletter.com/ [email protected] 1 Letter from the Editors two published symposia on DA-RT. The first was pub- by Matt Golder & Sona N. Golder lished in 2014 in PS: Political Science and Politics and The Pennsylvania State University can be found here. The second was published in 2015 in the Qualitative & Multi-Method Research Newsletter and can be found here. In addition, there have been nu- Welcome to the Spring 2016 issue of the Compara- merous other publications and blog posts in which vari- tive Politics Newsletter. Our current issue includes a ous scholars have weighed in on the DA-RT controversy symposium on Data Access and Research Transparency (see the links found here). Given the importance of is- (DA-RT), a symposium on the Politics of Space, and an sues related to data access and research transparency, overview of the Ill-Treatment and Torture (ITT) Data the President of APSA’s Comparative Politics Section, Collection Project. Robert Kaufman, asked us to include a symposium on DA-RT in the CP Newsletter. We were happy to do so. I. Symposium on DA-RT A Brief History of DA-RT Over the last year or so, there has been a growing and often heated discussion about issues related to data ac- Our sense is that many scholars are unclear as to how cess and research transparency (DA-RT) in political sci- the DA-RT controversy originated. We begin, therefore, ence. The primary catalysts for this discussion were the with a brief history of DA-RT. 2012 changes that were made to APSA’s Guide to Pro- fessional Ethics in Political Science and the 2014 Journal DA-RT began its life as an Ad Hoc Committee of Editors Transparency Statement (JETS), which publicly the American Political Science Association in 2010. Is- committed signatory journal editors to develop policies sues related to data access and research transparency and author guidelines by January 15, 2016 that would were discussed at the September 2010 APSA Council promote data access and research transparency. The Meeting.1 The issues discussed ranged “from finding JETS, in particular, has been the target of much criti- mechanisms that serve both quantitative and qualita- cism within the discipline. tive methodologies, managing costs, protecting confi- dentiality, and respecting differences among research Discussion about DA-RT has played out in mul- communities” (Gazette, 2011a, 478). At this meeting, tiple arenas. http://www.dartstatement.org/ is a web- Colin Elman and Arthur Lupia were asked to form the site created by Arthur Lupia, Colin Elman, and Di- core of a small working group to investigate these issues ana Kapiszewski to publicize and promote greater ac- further.2 Thus was DA-RT born. cess to data and research transparency in the discipline. http://dialogueondart.org/ is a website created by sev- At the February 2011 APSA Council Meeting, eral scholars — Nancy Hirschmann, Mala Htun, Jane Arthur Lupia noted that the “data access and research Mansbridge, Kathleen Thelen, Lisa Wedeen, and Elisa- transparency ad hoc committee …has been formed and beth Wood — who have been critical of the DA-RT idea will have a full report at the next meeting” (Gazette, and who have specifically called for a delay in the im- 2011b, 887). The Ad Hoc Committee included Arthur plementation of the JETS (see here). There have been Lupia, Colin Elman, George Alter, Brian D. Humes, Di- 1APSA’s interest in these issues goes back further than this meeting. The APSA Council under president Henry Brady (2009-2010) had already called for an examination of research transparency issues following “growing concern that scholars could not replicate a signifi- cant number of empirical claims that were being made in the discipline’s leading journals” (Lupia and Elman, 2014, 19). In 2009, APSA’s Committee on Publications discussed a proposal “to encourage authors to deposit their data in a central repository to provide more cen- tralized access for others seeking to replicate or extend prior work” (McDermott, 2010, 15). This specific discussion motivated the January 2010 PS: Political Science and Politics symposium on Data Collection and Collaboration. The goal of the symposium was to “stimulate some discussion of the value of data archiving for the cumulation of knowledge in our discipline” and there was a recognition that “qualitative and quantitative data may require alternate formats for effective archiving, and may necessitate different protections concerning confiden- tiality around sources” (McDermott, 2010, 15). The symposium was followed by a panel at the 2010 APSA Meeting and “everyone who is interested [was encouraged] to join in that conversation” (McDermott, 2010, 16). 2Council members in attendance at the September 2010 meeting included Cristina Beltrán, Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, Henry Brady, Michael Brintnall, Jodi Dean, Roxanne Euben, Mark Graber, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Evelyne Huber, Jeffrey Isaac, Michael Jones-Correa, Jane Junn, Atul Kohli, Arthur Lupia, Thomas Mann, Lisa Martin, Joseph McCormick, Rose McDermott, Maria Victoria Murillo, Julie Novkov, Carole Pateman, Mark Peterson, Ronald Rogowski, S. Laurel Weldon, and Franke Wilmer. Guests included Jeffrey Biggs, Regina Chavis, Robert Hauck, Polly Karpowicz, Michael Marriott, Kimberly Mealy, and Sean Twombly. http://comparativenewsletter.com/ [email protected] 2 ana Kapiszewski, Rose McDermott, Ron Rogowski, S. the empirical research traditions within our discipline. Laurel Weldon, and Rick Wilson. At the August 2011 The council urged continued work to communicate with APSA Council Meeting, Arthur Lupia and Colin El- the membership regarding these guidelines” (Gazette, man “presented a proposal from the Data Access and 2013b, 707). Research Transparency group to amend APSA’s ethics guide” (Gazette, 2012, 589). A motion to refer the pro- To promote a wider discussion of DA-RT, the April posal to the APSA’s Ethics Committee “was approved” 2013 APSA Council Meeting reported that “activities (Gazette, 2012, 589).3 undertaken and/or planned include: a DART short course conducted at the March 2013 Western Politi- The DA-RT proposal was reviewed and amended cal Science Association
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