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Reforming Institutional Review Board Policy: Issues in Implementation and Field Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2008

Dvora Yanow  and
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Dvora Yanow
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Affiliation:
University of Utah
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Political science as a discipline has largely ignored research regulatory policies associated with institutional review boards (IRBs). Many political scientists—especially those in the senior ranks—are either oblivious to the existence of IRBs or actively decide to sidestep them by not submitting their proposals for review. Based on research conducted since 2004, we hold that APSA members at all ranks of the profession, along with political scientists worldwide, need to be concerned, not to say alarmed, about IRB policy. Why this sense of urgency, and why now?

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Symposium—Protecting Human Research Participants, IRBs, and Political Science Redux
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 483 - 494
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2008

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