Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

This is an interesting question: in political science, I would not say that we have necessarily been trained or encouraged to include these types of observations. There also is not a lot of room, given the word limits of many journals and/or the discouraging of footnotes, to elaborate critically on ...

Thanks everyone for your responses. I'm happy to see I'm not the only one out there who likes chunky footnotes. I think Nancy's point is an important one -- that to the extent journals move away from footnoting to in-text citation (while also often discouraging footnotes/endnotes), and impose 8000-w...

As someone who uses archival and other textual sources, I would love to have some more discussion about active citation as a way forward, or backward, when it comes to increasing transparency in qualitative research. The examples at the Qualitative Data Repository reveal some benefits of having scho...