1st Edition
Quantitative Human Rights Measures and Measurement Current Debates and Future Directions
Introduction: Quantitative Human Rights Measures
Mark Gibney and Peter Haschke
1. Changing standards or political whim? Evaluating changes in the content of US State Department Human Rights Reports following presidential transitions
Rebecca Cordell, K. Chad Clay, Christopher J. Fariss, Reed M. Wood and Thorin M. Wright
2. Path dependence and human rights improvement
David Cingranelli and Mikhail Filippov
3. What bias? Changing standards, information effects, and human rights measurement
Peter Haschke and Daniel Arnon
4. ‘Who did what for whom?’ Amnesty International’s Urgent Actions as activist-generated data
Ann Marie Clark and Bi Zhao
5. Human rights data for everyone: Introducing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI)
Anne-Marie Brook, K. Chad Clay and Susan Randolph
6. Advocacy output: Automated coding documents from human rights organizations
Amanda Murdie, David R. Davis and Baekkwan Park
7. How to teach machines to read human rights reports and identify judgments at scale
Baekkwan Park, Kevin Greene and Michael Colaresi
8. Introducing DyoRep: A database of perpetrator–victim dyads within repressive spells
Christian Davenport
9. Words count: Discourse and the quantitative analysis of international norms
Carla Winston
Biography
Mark Gibney is the Belk Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He is a co-director of the Political Terror Scale Human Rights data collection project.
Peter Haschke is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Asheville and co-director of the Political Terror Scale project.
