title: Reporting ethics committee approval in public administration research.
abstract: While public administration research is thriving because of increased attention to social scientific rigor, lingering problems of methods and ethics remain. This article investigates the reporting of ethics approval within public administration publications. Beginning with an overview of ethics requirements regarding research with human participants, I turn to an examination of human participants protections for public administration research. Next, I present the findings of my analysis of articles published in the top five public administration journals over the period from 2000 to 2012, noting the incidences of ethics approval reporting as well as funding reporting. In explicating the importance of ethics reporting for public administration research, as it relates to replication, reputation, and vulnerable populations, I conclude with recommendations for increasing ethics approval reporting in public administration research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Jockey Club Social Sciences Building C-950, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HKSAR, sjordan@hku.hk.
authors.forename: Sara R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Jordan
authors.forename: Phillip W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Gray
mesh_terms: D035081:Editorial Policies; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D012107:Research Design; D012942:Social Sciences / Q000941:ethics*; D035862:Vulnerable Populations