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Innovations in Human Rights

Concepts, Data, and Measurement

AvKelebogile Zvobgo,Francesca Parente

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

This timely book presents a practical framework for conceptualizing and analyzing human rights issues such as repression, compliance, and transitional justice in an increasingly fraught climate for human rights globally. Emerging and established experts advance quantitative and mixed-methods research, showcasing innovative ways of measuring and evaluating multifaceted concepts.Chapters cover a broad range of salient topics including state repression, civil society activism, compliance with international law, and transitional justice. Emphasizing that rigorous research is driven by substance, not methods, the contributing authors explain how they measure concepts that are vital to human rights research. They showcase diverse forms of evidence in descriptive and analytical studies, as well as guidance for using cutting-edge techniques like machine learning and text analysis, charting a path for future empirical human rights research.Innovations in Human Rights provides students and scholars with an essential toolkit they can incorporate into their learning, research, and teaching of human rights, international law, international organizations, and research methods.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-24
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035356454

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Mer om författaren

Edited by Kelebogile Zvobgo, Mansfield Associate Professor of Government and Director, International Justice Lab, William & Mary, USA and Francesca Parente, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director, Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Christopher Newport University, USA

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‘Zvobgo and Parente have compiled an excellent volume for scholars looking to move beyond annual studies of statewide human rights practices or delve deeper into the institutions meant to improve those practices. Anyone seeking to study the causes and consequences of human rights outcomes should read this book.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents1 Advancing empirical human rights research 1Kelebogile Zvobgo and Francesca Parente2 Detecting repression with machine learning and text analysis 14Rebecca Cordell3 Studying non-state actor participation in internationalorganizations using bureaucratic data 31Rachel J. Schoner4 Applying game theory and case evidence to understandinternational law 43Genevieve Bates5 Using newspaper coverage to examine the local effects ofinternational organizations 57Stephen Chaudoin6 Assessing quasi-judicial bodies’ enforcement of internationalhuman rights law 69Andreas J. Ullmann7 Predicting time to compliance with international courtjudgments 82Aníbal Pérez-Liñán8 Uncovering the uneven application of domestic reparationslaws 96Claire Greenstein9 Measuring repression through restrictions on civil society 114Andrew Heiss10 Moving forward: challenges and opportunities formeasurement in human rights 126Francesca Parente and Kelebogile ZvobgoReferences 134