To report or not to report on research ethics in political science and international relations: A New Dimension of Gender-based Inequality

Knott, Eleanor ORCID: 0000-0002-9131-3939 and Kostovicova, Denisa ORCID: 0000-0002-6243-4379 (2024) To report or not to report on research ethics in political science and international relations: A New Dimension of Gender-based Inequality. American Political Science Review. ISSN 1537-5943 (In Press)

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Abstract

The profession has been increasing efforts to ensure ethical research in politics and international relations (IR) with robust institutional review procedures. But, this ethics turn has not been evaluated systematically to date. Drawing on two original datasets that record reporting on the ethical practices of research in key political science and IR journals (2000-2018), we analyze how scholars report on ethics of research involving human participants as well as archival, social media, and textual data from the perspective of feminist ethics of care. We find that women report ethics more than men, women and men report on different dimensions of ethics, and these differences are starker at the intersection of gender and method. We identify a new dimension of gender-based inequality in the profession which, we argue, stems from voluntary practices of ethics reporting that persist globally in academic publications. An agreed international standard of reporting research ethics is needed.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author
Divisions:	Methodology European Institute
Subjects:	H Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	22 Apr 2024 13:57
Last Modified:	23 Apr 2024 10:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122730

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