It is very difficult to enjoy absolute ethics in political research in the present period. This is because when politicians or groups of folks with specific agendas need a research paper to back them up, they end up paying a university, or research group for a specific outcome. Researchers should be very careful when taking such money, and understand that such strings attached to political research could indeed get them in trouble with the scientific community, or cause controversy with peer reviews.
So what is a researcher to do? Should they not take the money, should they not take the work, or should they find another way around it? One solution is that if you want to do political research you should first;
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