Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Exploring Human Rights Issues with Statistics -Richard P. Claude and Thomas B. Jabine 2. The Limitations of Using Quantitative Data in Studying Human Rights Abuses -Robert Justin Goldstein 3. Use of Incomplete and Distorted Data in Inference About Human Rights Violations -Douglas A. Samuelson and Herbert F. Spirer Introduction 4. Guidelines for Field Reporting of Basic Human Rights Violations -Randy B. Reiter , M. V. Zunzunegui , and Jose Quiroga 5. HURIDOCS Standard Formats as a Tool in the Documentation of Human Rights Violations -Judith Dueck 6. The Rights of Collectivities: Principles and Procedures in Measuring the Human Rights Status of Communal and Political Groups -Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff 7. Political Rights and Political Liberties in Nations: An Evaluation of Human Rights Measures, 1950 to 1984 -Kenneth A. Bollen 8. Problems of Concept and Measurement in the Study of Human Rights -George A. Lopez and Michael Stohl 9. Human Rights Reporting as a Policy Tool: An Examination of the State Department Country Reports -Judith Eleanor Innes 10. Human Rights Reporting in Two Nations: A Comparison of the United States and Norway -Kathleen Pritchard Introduction 11. Statistical Evidence of Racial Disparities in Death Sentencing: A Critical Analysis of McCleskey v. Kemp -Glenn Dickinson and William B. Fairley 12. A Statistical Analysis of Dutch Human Rights Case Law Manfred Nowak and Herman von Hebel 13. An Epidemiology of Homicide: Ningún Nombre Burials in the Province of Buenos Aires from 1970 to 1984 -Clyde Collins Snow and Maria Julia Bihurriet 14. New Patterns of Oppression: An Updated Analysis of Human Rights Data -David L. Banks 15. A Guide to Human Rights Data Sources -Michael Cain , Richard P. Claude , and Thomas B. Jabine Contributors Index
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Exploring Human Rights Issues with Statistics -Richard P. Claude and Thomas B. Jabine 2. The Limitations of Using Quantitative Data in Studying Human Rights Abuses -Robert Justin Goldstein 3. Use of Incomplete and Distorted Data in Inference About Human Rights Violations -Douglas A. Samuelson and Herbert F. Spirer Introduction 4. Guidelines for Field Reporting of Basic Human Rights Violations -Randy B. Reiter , M. V. Zunzunegui , and Jose Quiroga 5. HURIDOCS Standard Formats as a Tool in the Documentation of Human Rights Violations -Judith Dueck 6. The Rights of Collectivities: Principles and Procedures in Measuring the Human Rights Status of Communal and Political Groups -Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff 7. Political Rights and Political Liberties in Nations: An Evaluation of Human Rights Measures, 1950 to 1984 -Kenneth A. Bollen 8. Problems of Concept and Measurement in the Study of Human Rights -George A. Lopez and Michael Stohl 9. Human Rights Reporting as a Policy Tool: An Examination of the State Department Country Reports -Judith Eleanor Innes 10. Human Rights Reporting in Two Nations: A Comparison of the United States and Norway -Kathleen Pritchard Introduction 11. Statistical Evidence of Racial Disparities in Death Sentencing: A Critical Analysis of McCleskey v. Kemp -Glenn Dickinson and William B. Fairley 12. A Statistical Analysis of Dutch Human Rights Case Law Manfred Nowak and Herman von Hebel 13. An Epidemiology of Homicide: Ningún Nombre Burials in the Province of Buenos Aires from 1970 to 1984 -Clyde Collins Snow and Maria Julia Bihurriet 14. New Patterns of Oppression: An Updated Analysis of Human Rights Data -David L. Banks 15. A Guide to Human Rights Data Sources -Michael Cain , Richard P. Claude , and Thomas B. Jabine Contributors Index
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"An interesting and intelligent volume."--Times Literary Supplement "A marvelous treatment of the difficulties and rewards of social science research. . . . Anyone whose teaching includes social science research methods and methodology should be familiar with this book."--American Political Science Review "The book as a whole should be very interesting for human rights researchers as well as for statisticians."--Austrian Journal of Public and International Law
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