Kristine Eck (Uppsala University) discusses the challenges of working with contemporary and historical police archives. For quantitative social scientists, how does "the data generation process" introduce measurement bias into the processes that we are actually describing when we employ data generated by the state for counterinsurgency? How do ongoing state efforts to digitize archives aid and hinder political scientists and data scientists trying to quantify human rights abuses? What are the citation norms for private correspondence by public figures who were in command decision roles during episodes of violence? A frank, eye-opening discussion on how scholars access and use state-generated datasets on repression, with comparative cases ranging from the Malayan Emergency to Israel and from contemporary OECD countries to Nepal.
Episode 22 - Wendy Pearlman
Episode 20 - Ana Bracic
Episode 19 - Margaret Levi
Episode 18 - Sarah Parkinson
Episode 17 - Christian Davenport (Part Two: ”Hi, My Name Is Christian, Don’t Mind The Vehicle...”)
Episode 16 - Jesse Driscoll (Part Two: ”True Tales from the Five-Sided Wind Tunnel”)
Episode 15 - David Laitin
Episode 14 - Sarah Cameron
Episode 13 - David Cunningham
Episode 12 - Cynthia Enloe
Episode 11 - Kanisha Bond
Episode 10 - Asfandyr Mir
Episode 9 - Tariq Thachil
Episode 8 - Zachariah Mamphilly
Episode 7 - Leonard Wantchekon
Episode 6 - Jen Murtazashvili
Episode 5 - Bob Bates
Episode 4 - Jesse Driscoll (UCSD)
Episode 3 - Christian Davenport
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