Abstract
Abstract This chapter considers the difficulties and challenges—both ethical and mechanical—of making data more transparent within qualitative political science research. Adopting a critical view of transparency and data sharing, the chapter begins by describing the discussions and debates about these issues in political science. Next, drawing from my qualitative research experience as well as the discipline-wide Qualitative Transparency Deliberations, the chapter suggests best practices for transparency and data sharing for qualitative researchers. Following this, it addresses some potential problems that these practices may pose for qualitative researchers (and how to address them), and closes with suggestions for future reading. Altogether, this chapter indicates that while debates about transparency and data sharing in political science may remain unsettled, qualitative scholars in the discipline have generated many productive guidelines for scholars, reviewers, and editors alike as they conduct and review qualitative research.
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