The supplementary materials accompanying Francesco Ragazzi's article, "A Comparative Analysis of Diaspora Policies," consists of the main dataset file containing the entries for each country, a spreadsheet containing a description of variable and their modalities, and a list of secondary sources used for the constitution of the dataset. Ragazzi's article compares 35 diaspora policies through multiple correspondence analysis, finding that "governmentality" best explains governments' transnational practices of power.
To access the supplementary materials, click here. To access the original article, click here. Julie Mazzel and Todd Nelson use network analysis of rendition flight data to measure the centrality of democratic and nondemocratic states within the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation program implemented by G.W. Bush. The included supplementary material provides the permutations of betweenness to test for network fragility.
To access the supplementary material, click here. To access the original article, click here. The supplementary material for Yehonatan Abramson's piece on the securitization of diaspora communities includes the textual results of Abramson's analysis of Israeli elite discourse (from 1948 to 2022). As described in the main article, the discourse analysis is divided according to the three discursive formations: diaspora as under threat, diaspora as security resource, and diaspora as a threat.
To access the supplementary material, click here. To access the original article, click here. A project of Plan Cóndor, the South America's Transnational Human Rights Violation (THRV) database contains factsheets on 805 Operation Condor victims, as well as a selection of 20 cases with text and audio description. Plan Cóndor is a joint initiative between the University of Oxford and several organizations in Uruguay and Chile.
To access the database, click here. The Political Costs of Abusing Human Rights: International Cooperation in Extraordinary Rendition7/16/2024
The supplementary material for Rebecca Cordell's "The Political Costs of Abusing Human Rights: International Cooperation in Extraordinary Rendition." In this piece, Cordell discusses the countries that cooperated in a secret rendition network that enabled the transfer of CIA terrorist suspects to secret detention sites between 2001 and 2005, as well as accounts for the variation between countries in the political costs of participation.
To access the supplementary material, click here. To access the original article, click here. The China's Transnational Repression of Uyghurs (CTRU) Dataset, published by the Oxus Society, records incidents of transnational repression perpetrated by the People's Republic of China (PRC) against ethnically non-Han citizens from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). This dataset contains 7,106 cases of transnational repression from 1997 until November 2021, occurring within 44 countries.
To access the dataset, click here. The Authoritarian Actions Abroad Database (AAAD), by Alexander Dukalskis, captures 1,177 incidents of transnational repression by authoritarian states between 1991 and 2019. The database is structured with the "event" as the unit of analysis, but it also codes the source country of action, the country in which the incident occurred, the individuals or groups being targeted by their home state, as well as the date in which the incident occurred.
To access the database and codebook, click here. This dataset serves as the replication data for "To Repress or to Co-Opt? Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance," an article published in the American Journal of Political Science in 2020. Using a "difference-in-differences design that exploits temporal variation in digital surveillance systems among Chinese counties," author Xu Xu finds that "surveillance increases local governments' public security expenditure and arrests of political activists but decreases public goods provision."
To access the dataset, click here. To access the original article, click here. The Central Asian Political Exiles (CAPE) database was initiated in October 2014 by John Heathershaw and Alexander Cooley, in partnership with David Lewis and Edward Lemon. It charts the extra-territorial security measures deployed by Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and the human rights threats, abuses, and concerns faced by exiles and opposition movements.
To access the database, click here. To access the codebook, and for more information on parameters and definitions, click here. |