Replication data for: "Advocacy Output: Automated-Coding Documents from Human Rights Organizations"

Human Rights Organizations (HROs) are important actors in the promotion and protection of human rights, despite being far less powerful than the actors primarily responsible for human rights abuses – states. Naming and Shaming is one of the tools most frequently employed by HROs in their efforts to increase respect for rights. This paper reviews the contributions and limitations of existing efforts to collect systematic data that measure the concept of shaming, and introduces a class of quantitative approaches that can be employed to generate data that measures shaming events. The paper proceeds to describe how the process of automated coding works and presents two new datasets measuring shaming in 1) a broad cross section of HROs and 2) the international media that were coded using this approach. The new datasets are compared with existing datasets to illustrate the utility of this approach. Finally, we introduce a way to measure the intensity of HRO shaming statements and describe how measures of intensity can be used to differentiate among approaches of HROs and gauge the effectiveness of different approaches.