Active Citation: The Coming Revolution in Qualitative Methods Andrew Moravcsik Princeton University Midwest Political Science Association Chicago 2013.

Active Citation: The Coming Revolution in Qualitative Methods

Andrew Moravcsik

Princeton University

Midwest Political Science Association

Chicago 2013

QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY ANALYSIS IMPORTANT 90% of scholars use some qualitative methods Qualitative work is more policy-relevant Qualitative work fosters area, functional and policy knowledge Even statistical work relies on qualitative coding

BUT NOT BEING SUSTAINED The number and prestige of qualitative scholars is declining

(e.g. top journals, universities, gatekeeper positions) Area and functional knowledge is declining Quality of scholarship is declining Qualitative scholars cannot demonstrate excellence Neighboring fields (e.g. diplomatic history) weak

The Crisis of Qualitative Political Science

ACTIVE CITATIONHyperlink footnotes to precisely cited, fully annotated excerpts from sources in appendix

QUALITATIVE DATA ARCHIVING

GRADUATE SOCIAL SCIENCE AND POLICY TRAINING IN QUALITATIVE METHODS

One Response: Greater Transparency in Qualitative Analysis

Best Practices:Political Science

Best Practices:Natural Science

Example: When did Polar Bears Evolve?

Article

Supplementary Materials

Best Practices: Legal Academia(Yale On-Line Law Review)

Best Practices: Policy Analysis

Best Practices: Journalism

Best Practices: Classified Intelligence Reports

Moravcsik, The Choice for

Europe(1998)

MAIN TEXT OF PAPER, ARTICLE OR BOOK

French agriculture lay at the center of President de Gaulle’s calculations about the European Economic Community (EEC) and British membership in it. Indeed, agriculture was a paramount foreign policy interest of France. At one meeting, de Gaulle identified divergent agricultural interests as the major reason why agreements within the EEC had been so difficult to reach. He noted that British membership would not just call the Common Agricultural Policy into question; it would transform the EEC into a wholly different organization. He referred to the transformation of agriculture as France’s “greatest problem,” now that the Algerian war had been settled, and added, strikingly, that “if we do not surmount it, we could see another Algerian affair on our own soil.” (Peyrefitte, C’était de Gaulle, I, p. 302)

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TRANSPARENCY APPENDIX

Annotation:

De Gaulle held this confidential discussion with his press spokesman Alain Peyrefitte on 6 June 1962, following a cabinet meeting that discussed a recent summit between de Gaulle and Macmillan. At the summit, the British had displayed an unexpected willingness to “do whatever it takes” to enter the EEC. This forced de Gaulle to clarify the extent of his essential opposition to British membership. This source confirms the quotation in the main text verbatim, providing emphatic and unambiguous evidence of the central importance of agriculture in de Gaulle’s conception of French domestic, foreign and European policies.

Source Material:

« Le sort de notre agriculture est désormais, après le règlement de l'affaire algérienne, notre plus grand problème. Et si nous ne le réglons pas, nous pouvons avoir une autre affaire d’Algérie sur notre propre sol. Notre industrie peut affronter la concurrence, mais si notre agriculture devait rester en dehors du Marché commun, la charge qui en résulterait pour nos industriels ne serait pas supportable. Seulement, ça a été si difficile de s'entendre avec nos partenaires pour l’agriculture, et il reste encore tant de difficultés, que je ne vois pas comment on pourrait maintenant élaborer un autre régime. De toute façon, l'entrée de l'Angleterre serait un tel bouleversement, qu'il s'agirait alors d'un autre Marché commun.»

“Henceforth the fate of our agriculture is, after the resolution of the Algerian affair, our greatest problem. And if we do not surmount it, we could see another Algerian affair on our own soil. Our industry can handle the competition, but if our agriculture remains outside of the Common Market, the resulting burden for our industrial firms would be unbearable. Only, it has been so difficult to reach agreement with our (six EEC) partners on agriculture, and there remain many difficulties, that I don’t see how we could now elaborate another different scheme. To the contrary, the entry of England would be such an upheaval, that it would then amount to a different Common Market.” [Translation: Andrew Moravcsik]

Full Citation: Alain Peyrefitte, C’était de Gaulle (Paris: Fayard, 1994), p. 302.

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Traditional Footnotes vs.Active Citations

  Traditional Citation Active Citation

Precision Often Always

Inferential Connection

Rarely Always

Data Access NeverExcerpt or summary, and source if possible

Active Citation: Potential Benefits

Two clicks reveal the full richness of qualitative evidence and context.

Readers can cost-effectively check, critique and debate work, creating interest and exposing those who lack area and functional knowledge.

Qualitative Scholars can demonstrate excellence and advance in the field, creating an incentive to invest in intensive field research, languages and area studies, policy knowledge, interviews, archival work, and detailed process-tracing of case studies.

Qualitative work is more open-ended, fueling theoretical innovation.

Evidence is a public good: it can be reused for scholarly or public policy purposes.

Those with specific functional, area and policy expertise will be in greater demand on journal review boards, book series, prize committees, and disciplinary governance groups, thereby enhancing their prestige and influence.

Greater opportunities are created for interdisciplinary cooperation with policy, history, law, journalism.

Active Citation: What have we done?

Produced Articles, Proposals and Workshops http://www.princeton.edu/~amoravcs/ and Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)

Secured APSA Approval New Transparency/Replicability Guidelines

Awarded NSF Funding

Working on Legal, Human Subject, and Logistical Issues

Creating NSF/QDR Demonstration Website 20+ scholars retrofitting “classic” articles and chapters Younger scholars preparing new and forthcoming work

Designing New Software

ACE Word Add-in

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- Database (Access, Atlas…)

Active Citation: The Future Agenda

Expand demonstration website to include work in Policy Analysis, Human Rights, Human Security, Development and Political Economy, Regional and Area Studies, Environment and other functional global issues.

Work with Journal Editors, Publishers to Secure Adoption

Develop Teaching Materials for Undergraduate, Graduate, Policy Analysis

Establish Prizes, Training Courses, Recognition, Publicity

Expand Free Word-processing Software Options (e.g. ad-on’s for other WP)

Work with Major Software Providers (e.g. database software)

Establish inter-disciplinary links with history, law, policy schools

Reach out to Journalists, Policy-makers, Government agencies, NGOs,

Policy Analysts to exchange ideas and develop common standards

Active Citation: Qualitative Methods and the Coming Methodological Revolution

Andrew Moravcsik

Princeton University

Midwest Political Science Association

Chicago 2013