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

Building trust between academic medical centers and certain communities they depend on
in the research process is hard, particularly when those communities consist of minoritized …

Field experiments, also known as randomized con-trolled trials (RCTs), have emerged as a
leading methodological tool to strengthen causal inference in the social sciences (Banerjee …

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 …

Writing about trust and distrust often feels futile. Words can never fully capture the
experience of trust and distrust. When trust is achieved, language can do little to convey the …

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 …

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

Both qualitative and quantitative scholars are increasingly attentive to the importance of
reflexivity in research. This chapter highlights the varied ways reflexivity is defined and …