Hermeneutics and the question of transparency

The call for “evidentiary and logical” data-transparency stan-dards1 in the APSA’s “Statement on Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT)” opens an important conversation about transparency in political inquiry. In what follows, I con-sider what transparency might mean in the context of the herme-neutical interpretation of texts, as an empirical and non-posi-tivist mode of political inquiry.