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The introduction article for the @JPR_journal special issue provides more details about each of the articles: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320975200. An ungated version is available: http://cfariss.com/documents/FarissLo2020JPR_special_issue_intro.pdf
In each of the articles in the @JPR_journal special issue, the author teams present innovative new measurement models focused on concepts of interest to scholars of peace and conflict. I’ll give a brief summary of each of the articles in the rest of this thread.
@HBullfan, @cpotznielsen, and @JaneLSumner measure state investment preferences for investor protection by scaling dyadic characteristics of bilateral investment treaties that different states sign with each other: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320959130
@kailmarkvart analyses the relationship between different models that incorporate expert-coded identity-based discrimination questions that are related to the onset of civil conflict: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320959121
@thereanders uses geo-coded event data on rebel tactics to estimate spatial-temporal variation in territorial control at the level of hexagonal grid cells for the cases of Nigeria and Colombia: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320959687
@kchadclay, @With2Ks, @AMLBrook, Danny Hill, and @AmandaMurdie present new estimates of intensity and within country variation of human rights abuse using practitioner-survey generated expert data: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320959688
@ju_kru and @ragnhildnordas present a dynamic latent measure of wartime sexual violence using human rights reports from three different organizations as source material: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320961147
@miriam_barnum and James Lo use text data from conference statements about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to estimate country-year measurements of preferences along a non-proliferation vs. disarmament dimension: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320960523
@stephen_meserve and @_dbp_ use takedown request data from online content providers to construct latent measures of internet censorship and contrast these with subjective expert ratings of content regulation: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320959369
@z_terechshenko presents a latent variable for interstate hostility at the dyadic level, using the Dyadic Militarized Interstate Disputes data and the Phoenix political event dataset: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320962546
@RebeccaCordell, Kristian Gleditsch, Florian Kern, and @SaavedraLux present an original database of American Indian constitutions and use a text-as-data model to analyze and classify the content of 97 constitutions: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320959122
@joeyhuddleston presents a measure of latent recognition of international sovereignty using information about third parties’ unilateral policy decisions towards self-determination conflicts: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320960208
@cjfariss, @MichaelKenwick, and @KevinReuning present new latent human rights scores and new estimates of one-sided killings, even for cases where such events appear likely but were not recorded in existing datasets: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343320965670
The articles in the @JPR_journal special issue represent the diversity of substantive interests that span the study of peace and conflict. We hope these articles help inspire important new research on measurement in these substantive areas. /end
