Using practitioner surveys to measure human rights

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative's civil and political rights metrics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3917043
AutoresK Chad Clay (0000-0001-8276-6998, University of Georgia, autor de correspondencia), Ryan Bakker (0000-0002-7695-9467, University of Essex), Anne-Marie Brooks (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research), Anne-Marie Brook (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research), Daniel W Hill (0000-0003-4978-2085, University of Georgia), Amanda Murdie (0000-0002-6459-0594, University of Georgia)
Año2020
Volumen57
Número6
Páginas715-727
Fecha de publicación2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022343320959688
OpenAlexW3095578618
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas19

Most cross-national datasets of civil and political rights practices have relied on internationally distributed English language secondary sources as the core source of information for their metrics. This approach has yielded data that are highly reliable, but also suffer from the fact that their information sources under-represent the overall level of abuse internationally and do so in a way that is biased across countries. The combined knowledge of the individual human rights practitioners working to directly monitor the abuses occurring within a country would likely serve to overcome much of this biased under-reporting, but it is difficult to compare that knowledge across country and cultural contexts. In this article, we discuss how we overcome these problems in the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) civil and political rights data. Using an expert survey that contains anchoring vignettes in concert with Bayesian scaling techniques, we present a new methodology for collecting and aggregating data on the intensity and distribution of respect for eight separate civil and political rights

Civil rights · Data mining · Data science · Human rights · Measure (data warehouse) · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Statistics · Survey data collection · Computer Science · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies