In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken...

This report focuses on set-analytic approaches that use algorithms and computer software for parts of their analysis, particularly Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). We concentrate on transparency concerning the "analytic moment" that stretches from assigning membership scores of cases in...

Since the debate between qualitative and quantitative research began, most scholars have treated qualitative methods as a homogeneous entity. This homogenization of the "qualitative methodologist" is both harmful and unwarranted. In this article, we seek to rectify this burgeoning assumption...