Information Effects and Human Rights Data: Is the Good News About Increased Human Rights Information Bad News for Human Rights Measures?
Information Effects and Human Rights Data: Is the Good News About Increased Human Rights Information Bad News for Human Rights Measures?
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DOI：
10.1353/hrq.2013.0046
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
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通讯作者：
Sikkink, Kathryn
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作者：
Clark, Ann Marie;Sikkink, Kathryn
与侵犯人权行为有关的信息的质量和可得性的变化提出了如何最好地利用现有数据评估人权变化的问题。信息效应在两个主要的人权数据集——政治恐怖量表（PTS）和Cingranelli-Richards人权数据集（CIRI）——编码的信息和数据的主要来源中都可以看出。作者讨论了人权信息变得更好的方式，评估了拉丁美洲国家的量表及其主要文本来源，并将其与从区域真相委员会数据中提取的信息进行了比较。在使用汇总数据推断人权变化时，建议格外谨慎。
Changes in quality and availability of information related to human rights violations raise questions about how best to use existing data to assess human rights change. Information effects are discernible both in primary sources of information and data coded by two prominent human rights datasets, the Political Terror Scale (PTS) and the Cingranelli-Richards Human Rights Data Set (CIRI). The authors discuss ways that human rights information has changed for the better, evaluate the scales and their primary text sources for countries in Latin America, and compare them with information drawn from regional truth commission data. Extra caution is advised when using summary data to make inferences about human rights change.