Conversations on how to assess, innovate, and develop policies for carbon removal are for
now largely confined to the Global North–reflecting a concentration of academic interest …

Across disciplines there is a large and increasing number of research projects that rely on
data collection activities in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, these are …

Understanding political and social effects of violence in local populations through public
opinion surveys has become increasingly common internationally. Yet while researchers are …

Randomised controlled trials in development economics, political science, and other social
science fields have been on the rise in recent decades. Recent awards and particular trials …

From textbooks and articles to seminars and online resources, advice on how to successfully
design and conduct randomized controlled trials abounds (eg, Gerber and Green 2012; …

The misalignment of goals among researchers, external organizational partners (OPs), and
study participants is thought to pose a challenge to the successful implementation of …

Calls for political science and related disciplines to inform public debates and contribute to
public policy have proliferated in recent years. Scholars increasingly work with high-level …

Political scientists' positionality (ie, their own identities, beliefs, and assumptions about the
context of a study) often receives implicit recognition in publications but rarely is explicitly …

In political science, there are growing calls for scholarship to engage directly and equitably
with communities and other research stakeholders. We build on, and advance, this …

Social experiments such as randomized control trials (RCTs), which rely on systematic
assessment in highly structured environments, are a robust approach to design and …