Replication Data for: Exploring Disagreement in Indicators of State Repression

Until recently, researchers who wanted to examine the determinants of state respect for most specific negative rights needed to rely on data from the CIRI or the Political Terror Scale (PTS). The new V-DEM dataset offers scholars a potential alternative to the individual human rights variables from CIRI. We analyze a set of key Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project and Varieties of Democracy (V-DEM) negative rights indicators, finding unusual and unexpectedly large patterns of disagreement between the two sets. First, we discuss the new V-DEM dataset by comparing it to the disaggregated CIRI indicators, discussing the history of each project, and describing its empirical domain. Second, we identify a set of disaggregated human rights measures that are similar across the two datasets and discuss each project's measurement approach. Third, we examine how these measures compare to each other empirically, showing that they diverge considerably across both time and space. These findings point to several important directions for future work, such as how conceptual approaches and measurement strategies affect rights scores. For the time being, our findings suggest that researchers should think carefully about using the measures as substitutes.直至近年，旨在考察国家对绝大多数具体消极权利尊重程度之决定因素的研究者，均需依赖辛格拉内利-理查兹人权数据项目（Cingranelli-Richards Human Rights Data Project，CIRI）或《政治恐怖量表》（Political Terror Scale，PTS）所提供的数据。全新的民主多样性（Varieties of Democracy，V-DEM）数据集为学者们提供了可替代CIRI单项人权变量的潜在选择。本研究针对两类数据集的核心消极权利指标展开分析，结果发现二者间存在异常且出乎意料的大量分歧。其一，我们将V-DEM新数据集与细分后的CIRI指标进行对比，同时梳理两个研究项目的发展历程并阐释其经验研究范畴；其二，我们梳理出两类数据集间具有相似性的若干细分人权测度指标，并分别探讨两个项目的测度方法；其三，我们从经验层面比对这些指标的表现，结果显示二者在时间与空间维度上均存在显著分歧。上述研究结论为未来研究指明了若干重要方向，例如概念路径与测度策略如何影响权利评分。就目前而言，我们的研究结果提示研究者在将两类指标作为替代变量使用时，应当审慎考量。