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The Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project
Abstract
The CIRI Human Rights Data Project provides information about government respect for a broad array of human rights in nearly every country in the world. Covering twenty-six years, fifteen separate human rights practices, and 195 countries, it is one of the largest human rights data sets in the world. This essay provides an overview of the CIRI project and our response to some critiques of the CIRI physical integrity rights index. Compared to the Political Terror Scale (PTS), the CIRI physical integrity rights index is focused on government human rights practices , can be disaggregated, is more transparent in its construction, and is more replicable because of the transparency of our coding rules. Furthermore, unlike the PTS, the unidimensionality of the CIRI index has been demonstrated empirically. For these reasons, the CIRI index is a more valid index of physical integrity rights.
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Measuring the Level, Pattern, and Sequence of Government Respect for Physical Integrity Rights
Cingranelli, D. L., & Richards, D. L. (1999) · International Studies Quarterly · doi:10.1111/0020-8833.00126 · Cited by 348
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Self-citationPoe, S. C., Carey, S. C., & Vazquez, T. C. (2001) · Human Rights Quarterly · doi:10.1353/hrq.2001.0041 · Cited by 185
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The Politics of Measurement: The Contested Count of the Disappeared in Argentina
Brysk, A. (1994) · Human Rights Quarterly · doi:10.2307/762564 · Cited by 107
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cingranelli, D. L., & Richards, D. L.
- Venue
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2010-05
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 401-424
- ISSN
- 0275-0392 (ISSN-L)
- 1085-794X
- OpenAlex
- W2006616785
- Cited by
- 622
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 124.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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