Abstract:In this comment, I am presenting several issues concerning the paper Obesity of politicians and corruption in post-Soviet countries, written by Pavlo Blavatskyy and published in Economics of Transition and Institutional Change (2020). The issues are grouped into two categories: conceptual, which deals with research design and ethics; and methodological, which includes specific statistical methods, concepts and decisions. While these aspects are important in doing valid and beneficial research, some of them car… Show more
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