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Alongside case studies and interviews, documentation analysis and review of varying kinds and levels of sophistication forms one of the top three parts of qualitative social science. In this session, Professor Patrick Dunleavy and Dr Timothy Monteath focused on contemporary or fully publicly available document and text sources where access for replication purposes is feasible, and where a full set of documents can be read or sampled. Thus, their scope includeda vast range of government, parliamentary, public policy, sub-national government documentation (especially available under freedom of information), plus publicly available documentation of corporations, firms and NGOs, and a wide range of media outputs in text/document or other formats. (They reserved discussion documents in formal archives with restrictive access needing specialist skills, such as many historical archives, for a later session). Open social science aims to enhance the confidence that readers can respond in the presentation and interpretation of documentary evidence, strengthening the replicability, robustness and generalizability of studies using this key methods tool. Key steps include: Strengthening the systematic nature of documentation identification, search and summarization via content analysis, and QCA/set-based methods; Developing improved quantitative summaries of documentation contents and memes; Making more evidence crucial for qualitative judgements accessible for inspection or counter-interpretation; Pre-specifying hypotheses and propositions, and narratively recording the evolution of analyses or interpretations; Making more explicit and ‘stress-testing’ the posited links between particular evidence and analytic judgements; Complementing open social science approaches for interview-based research (seehere) and case studies (forthcoming). This event was part of a series of workshops organised to support the development of theCIVICA Research Open Science Handbook for the Social Sciences. |
