Quantitative Human Rights Measures and Measurement

Current Debates and Future Directions
Herausgeber: Gibney, Mark; Haschke, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this edited volume, leading experts of human rights measurement address the challenges scholarship of human rights face as well as explore approaches and means to overcoming them. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Human Rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781032481418
• ISBN-10: 1032481412
• Artikelnr.: 67400206

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Quantitative Human Rights Measures 1. Changing standards or
political whim? Evaluating changes in the content of US State Department
Human Rights Reports following presidential transitions 2. Path dependence
and human rights improvement 3. What bias? Changing standards, information
effects, and human rights measurement 4. 'Who did what for whom?' Amnesty
International's Urgent Actions as activist-generated data 5. Human rights
data for everyone: Introducing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative
(HRMI) 6. Advocacy output: Automated coding documents from human rights
organizations 7. How to teach machines to read human rights reports and
identify judgments at scale 8. Introducing DyoRep: A database of
perpetrator-victim dyads within repressive spells 9. Words count: Discourse
and the quantitative analysis of international norms