Measuring Human Rights

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ISBN: 9780415446501 | 0415446503
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Copyright: 12/4/2009

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The measurement of human rights has long been debated throughout the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights. Written by leading experts in the field, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on how to measure human rights.

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Background developments	p. 2
The purpose of measuring human rights	p. 4
Overview of the book	p. 6
The content of human rights	p. 9
Introduction	p. 9
The international human rights regime	p. 10
Human rights in international law	p. 16
The content of human rights	p. 16
Rights in principle	p. 19
Rights in policy	p. 21
Rights in practice	p. 23
Measurement complexity, validity and viability	p. 24
The 'basic rights' argument	p. 24
The 'obligations' argument	p. 25
The 'implementation' argument	p. 25
The 'unique rights' argument	p. 26
Summary	p. 30
Measuring human rights	p. 31
The moment of measurement	p. 32
Source material	p. 34
Types of human rights measures	p. 36
Events-based measures	p. 37
Standards-based measures	p. 37
Survey-based measures	p. 38
Socio-economic and administrative statistics	p. 39
Measuring to assess	p. 40
Summary and the way forward	p. 42
Events-based measures of human rights	p. 45
Introduction	p. 45
Events data in the social sciences	p. 46
The methodology of events data	p. 48
Source material	p. 51
The use of events data	p. 57
Assessing events data for measuring human rights	p. 58
Summary	p. 63
Standards-based measures	p. 64
Introduction	p. 64
Background: regime types and scales	p. 65
Recent efforts: from 'freedom' to human rights	p. 67
Freedom House	p. 68
Political terror scale and the scale of torture	p. 73
Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) human rights data	p. 77
Measuring the de jure human rights commitments of states	p. 78
Uses and limitations of standards-based measures	p. 86
Survey-based measures	p. 91
Introduction	p. 91
The familiarity of surveys	p. 93
Survey design	p. 97
Sampling	p. 99
Inferences	p. 102
Limitations to survey-based measures	p. 105
Socio-economic and administrative statistics	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
Official statistics in measurement and monitoring	p. 108
Using official statistics to measure human rights	p. 112
Aggregate statistics: measuring rights in practice	p. 112
Disaggregate statistics: measuring rights in policy and practice	p. 116
Assessing the use of official statistics	p. 122
Summary	p. 126
Conclusion	p. 127
Conceptual lessons	p. 128
Methodological lessons	p. 128
Policy lessons	p. 130
Summary	p. 131
Further Resources	p. 134
Notes	p. 136
References	p. 138
Index	p. 157
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