ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN EUROPEAN CROSS-NATIONAL RESEARCH

The article highlights some of the ethical dilemmas facing the Europea n comparative social researcher and reviews some of the national, and international, procedures aimed at resolving them. It provides a preli minary report on an ongoing survey of research funding bodies, researc h institutes and centres, institutions acid individual researchers, la unched by the author in 1993, to assess the extent to which profession al researchers have recognized such ethical dilemmas and accept the ne ed for the maintenance of ethical standards, and to identify the measu res which are currently in force, or are planned, to assist the resear ch community in doing so. A final section suggests future developments which can assist the cross-national and comparative researcher.