@article{Clay:290506,
      recid = {290506},
      author = {Clay, Chad K and Bakker, Ryan and Brook, Anne-Marie and  Hill, Daniel W. and Murdie, Amanda},
      title = {HRMI Civil and Political Rights Metrics: 2018 Technical  Note},
      address = {2018-03},
      number = {1124-2019-2366},
      pages = {50},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {This paper details a new methodology developed to measure  civil and political rights violations in a pilot sample of  13 diverse countries. In doing so, we discuss the problems  present in previous attempts to measure civil and political  rights cross-nationally and argue that our approach  overcomes many of those problems. Using an expert survey  that draws on the knowledge of human rights researchers,  advocates, lawyers, journalists, and others responsible for  directly monitoring the human rights situation in countries  worldwide, we present new measures of the intensity and  distribution of respect for seven separate areas of civil  and political rights and compare those data with existing  work. The results demonstrate that our technique for  producing data on civil and political rights produces  outcomes with strong face validity vis-à-vis existing  measures, while providing more and better information than  any previous cross-national data collection effort. We aim  to extend this approach to most other countries in the  world over the coming years.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/290506},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.290506},
}