Opening Up? Adoption of Open Science Practices in Democratic Innovation Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12376951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lala Muradova (0000-0002-7615-6779, University of Southampton, corresponding author), Matt Ryan (0000-0002-8693-5063, University of Southampton), Rafael Mestre (0000-0002-2460-4234, University of Southampton), Masood Gheasi (0000-0002-0857-408X, Erasmus University College), Geoffrey Bolton (0000-0002-8084-3643, University of Southampton) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-16 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096525101297 |
| OpenAlex | W4414210075 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Innovations in deliberative and participatory democracy have been rapidly adopted by policy makers. Long-term success of democratic reform hinges on developing research through open, reproducible, and ethical standards that secure trust in findings. This study examines how Democratic Innovations (DI) scholars implement open science practices (OSP). We analyze empirical research published in English-language peer-reviewed journals between 1970 and 2021. Our analysis reveals limited OSP use: less than 1% of research articles involve replication and approximately 3.5% provide full data access, despite an increase in the past decade to almost 8% of articles published in 2020. Open publishing has increased, reaching almost 50% of publications in recent years. The article concludes by discussing how OSP can contribute to improving the practice of DI and the policy effects of institutional design. Researchers who understand institutional design for inclusive collective action are best placed to make the changes required to promote open science
Action (physics · Citizen journalism · Collective action · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Open Science · Participatory action research · Publishing · Meta-analysis and systematic reviews · scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Democratic Innovations
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling
The preregistration revolution
Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
Negative results are disappearing from most disciplines and countries
Questionable and Open Research Practices
Open Research Practices and Cultural Change
How Are We Doing? Data Access and Replication in Political Science
Testing for Publication Bias in Political Science
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations
The Rush to Transparency
Journal Editors and “Results-Free” Research
The Failure to Examine Failures in Democratic Innovation
Open Minds, Open Methods
Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |