human_rights: Human Rights Scores

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

A dataset containing human rights scores for countries between 1946 and 2017.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 11707 rows and 4 variables:

entity

the name of the country

code

the iso3 country code

year

the year

score

the human rights score for that year

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Source

Data accessed via https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-scores

References

Schnakenberg, K. E. & Fariss, C. J. (2014). Dynamic Patterns of Human Rights Practices. Political Science Research and Methods, 2(1), 1–31. doi:10.1017/psrm.2013.15

Fariss, C. J. (2019). Yes, Human Rights Practices Are Improving Over Time. American Political Science Review. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1017/S000305541900025X


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