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Researching the Politics of Illegal Activities

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posted on 2024-09-05, 21:05 authored by Max Gallien
Researching illegal activities, while an object of increasing interest, generates a range of methodological challenges for political scientists. Rather than an exhaustive discussion, this article provides a simple framework that structures these challenges. It highlights that illegality itself is an insufficient guide to method development and needs to be supplemented by an analysis of three further dimensions: enforcement, normalisation and ethics. The article notes that beyond providing insights into the feasibility and challenges of different methodologies, examining these dimensions also directly point researchers to key political science questions about illegal activities themselves.

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Gallien, M. (2021) 'Researching the Politics of Illegal Activities', Political Science & Politics [Preprint] Gallien, M. (2021). Researching the Politics of Illegal Activities. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1-5. doi:10.1017/S1049096521000317

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Political Science & Politics

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association.

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