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Davenport's Projects

Explorations of the Rashomon Effect in the Social Sciences : The Black Panther Party, 1967-1973

Contention in Space-Time : The Republic of New Africa, 1968-1974

GenoDynamics: Understanding Genocide Through Time and Space

Radical Civil Society in the United States, 1969-1996

Refugee and Internally Displaced Person Flows

Other Projects

European Protest and Coercion Data, 1980-1995
(Sources: Lexis-Nexus database, Reuters Textline Library, country-specific sources)

Guatemalan data on Human Rights, 1960-1996
(Sources: Newspapers, Oral History/Interviews, Documents from Human Rights Organizations)

  • This is a web data resource for the International Center for Human Rights Research (CIIDH). Here you will find raw data on human rights violations in Guatemala during the period 1960-1996 that you can use for your own statistical analyses. The raw data are available in various formats, and one should suit your software's needs. This data project captures many of the features that RIP was designed to put forward: innovative research design on a substantively important problem, a wealth of data that could be used to address questions regarding human rights practices, the production of knowledge about socio-political phenomena, and the politics of memory, and rigorous attention to data collection as well as accessibility.

Intranational Political Interactions Project (IPI)

  • compiled by Will H. Moore, Associate Professor of Political Science,
    Florida State University
  • The Intranational Political Interactions (IPI) project was designed to measure political conflict and cooperation within societies through the coding of political event reports from international, regional, and local sources.  These events were coded on two ten point scales which reflect the severity of various cooperative and conflictual statements and actions.  This scaled events data can be used to calculate the volume and intensity of political conflict and cooperation within the domestic polity.  In addition to facilitating the calculation of general levels of political conflict, the IPI coding scheme allows the examination of the dynamics of interaction among specific groups within the society.  IPI gives scholars the ability to track interactions among social groups and between the state and local groups. 
  •  The Intranational Political Interactions Project Codebook and Data Set

The Native American Contention Project, 1890-1997
(Sources:  The New York Times, all Congressional Hearings concerning Native Americans as documented by the Congressional Information System, Lexis-Nexis database)

POLITICAL ACTION BY NATIVE AMERICANS, 1890-1997

  • compiled by Marci Eads

    Introduction
  • The original project for which these data were gathered sought to understand and explain variation in the level, form, and outcomes of political activity between Native American groups and U.S. government institutions from 1890 to present.  Political activity was conceptualized along two dimensions:  institutional versus non-institutional, and contentious versus non-contentious activity.  The former refers to whether or not the activity occurs within standard political institutional channels, while the latter characterizes the nature of activities in terms of conflict and antagonism.  For example, non-contentious, institutional activity would include such things as voting, lobbying, and testifying before governmental committees, while contentious, institutional political activity would include litigation efforts by Native American groups.  Non-institutional, non-contentious activities refer to events which are sanctioned or condoned under the law, such as rallies, demonstrations, marches, and press-conferences, while non-institutional, contentious activities refer to illegal protest events.   
  • To explore these issues, we assembled a data set that encompasses political activity by Native American groups from 1890 to 1997.  We content coded the New York Times for political activity by Native Americans.  This entailed systematically examining approximately 1,000 articles cited in the New York Times Index from 1890 to 1997, which covered potential protest events.  Of these 1,000, approximately 200 proved to be actual protest events, following the guidelines in a codesheet designed by McAdam et al. (publication forthcoming).  The second data set consists of all Congressional Hearings concerning Native Americans over this time period.  Using the Congressional Information System, approximately 2,800 hearings were collected and coded.  This data set allowed us to track Native American use of the Congressional system in their attempts to gain rights.  It also allowed us to examine levels of political, non-contentious efforts by Native Americans with levels of contentious protest.  The third data set provides information on Native American litigation efforts, our measure of contentious, institutional political activity, gathered using the LEXIS-NEXIS database.  All U.S. Court of Claims cases involving Native Americans were coded. 
  • POLITICAL ACTION BY NATIVE AMERICANS:  Background
  • The Native American Contention Project Codebook
  • The Native American Contention Project Data Set

The Violent Intranational Conflict Data Project (VICDP)

  • compiled by Will H. Moore, Associate Professor of Political Science,
    Florida State University
  • The Violent Intranational Conflict Data Project (VICDP) is primarily motivated by the lack of events data for intranational conflict and cooperation.  The VICDP data catalogue conflictual and cooperative events within nation states using an event scale similar to the international event scale created for the COPDAB project.  Thus, for each event, the project records the actor, the target of the action, the type of event, the date of the event, and the source of the news report.  These raw data can then be used in a variety of ways.
  • VICDP--which was created in 1992--is a precursor to the IPI project.  As such, VICDP is a completed project--additional efforts to generate these data will be conducted using the IPI coding scheme.  Nevertheless, VICDP generated data for six cases--Columbia, Lebanon, Nigeria, Peru, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe--covering the years 1955-1991.
  • The Violent Intranational Conflict Data Conflict Project Codebook and Data Set

AAAS Science and Human Rights Program: Human Rights Data Analysis Group

  • Datasets from our work in Kosovo and Guatemala that you can download
    and use
  • Explanations of the core technical and political ideas we use in our
    work ("free software and human rights," "multiple systems estimation,"
    others)
  • Descriptions of our projects, including assistance to the truth
    commissions in Haiti, South Africa, and Guatemala
  • Free software databases that you can download. If you are a
    programmer, you are very welcome to help us finish coding. If you are a
    user, you can look at the screenshots and learn about why we build
    databases in these ways (these databases currently require expert
    assistance to install and configure).
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