Replication Data for: Victim’s Justice in the Aftermath of Political Violence: Why Do Countries Award Reparations?  (doi:10.7910/DVN/3D1GD3)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: Victim’s Justice in the Aftermath of Political Violence: Why Do Countries Award Reparations?

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/3D1GD3

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2016-01-23

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Kim Proctor; Kathy Powers, 2016, "Replication Data for: Victim’s Justice in the Aftermath of Political Violence: Why Do Countries Award Reparations?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/3D1GD3, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:94uZvldZieAoXZ/ryfh7Kg== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: Victim’s Justice in the Aftermath of Political Violence: Why Do Countries Award Reparations?

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/3D1GD3

Authoring Entity:

Kim Proctor (University of New Mexico)

Kathy Powers (University of New Mexico)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Replication, FPA

Depositor:

Replication, FPA

Date of Deposit:

2016-01-23

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/3D1GD3

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences

Abstract:

Governments often award reparations to victims of mass human rights violations (HRVs) committed during political violence. Although international law requires that governments compensate and restore victims of such violations, some states award reparations while others do not. In this paper, we provide the first global analysis of the determinants of state reparations awards to victims - the only transitional justice mechanism that focuses on restoring, repairing and rehabilitating victims following HRVs. To examine reparations awards, we consider the impact of factors such as whether a country has used other types of transitional justice mechanisms, economic development, and regime type. Using spatial analysis and rare events logit on a new database for all countries with political violence between 1969 and 2006, we find that 1) the use of other transitional justice mechanisms increases the likelihood of reparations awards, 2) truth commissions have the largest effect on the likelihood of reparations, 3) wealthy as well as democratic countries are more likely to award reparations than are poorer as well as non-democratic countries, and 4) reparations programs often follow democratic transitions, but rarely occur during them. These findings shed light on the determinants of reparations for mass HRVs.

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f2777898

File: ReplicationFile.tab

  • Number of cases: 5617

  • No. of variables per record: 20

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:6:94uZvldZieAoXZ/ryfh7Kg==

Variable Description

List of Variables:
  • cname - Country name
  • year - Year
  • africa - Africa
  • amnesty - Amnesty for any state actor
  • civtot - Civil violence + warfare
  • durable - Regime Durability
  • latinam - Latin America
  • lgdp - Log GDP
  • lpop - Log total population
  • mechnum - Trial+TRC+Amnesty
  • polity2 - Polity 2 score
  • rep - Reparations
  • t - Time
  • t2 - Time Squared
  • t3 - Time Cubed
  • transition - Country has experienced a transition
  • trc - Adoption of a truth commission
  • trial - Presence of trials
  • unfund - UN Funded Reparations Program
  • worst - Worst Human Rights Violation Score

Variables

Country name

f2777898 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:ZOzVH0ZZLdt6tRv+p7UCcA==

Year

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 5617.0; StDev 10.94892632015611; Max. 2006.0; Mean 1988.2554744525548; Min. 1969.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:cQQ8E1Q7tfdUsBECw0vnOA==

Africa

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.4605851518163555; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.3053231262239632; Valid 5617.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:elbtWIWzRuzrn9XZ+N1jLw==

Amnesty for any state actor

f2777898 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

0.

no

1.

yes

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.4021037702129437; Valid 5617.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.2027772832472842; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:aVOXLPRGKYy4lwiqNWepRQ==

Civil violence + warfare

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 2.7769587639939077; Min. 0.0; Mean 1.312978458251737; Max. 10.0; Valid 5617.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:v2TLBtRVSQo8f6pWyhkUSg==

Regime Durability

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 28.066863782910247; Valid 5617.0; Mean 22.236247106996675; Max. 197.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:BP3zpAddeag3mccPCKKcKA==

Latin America

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.36250710011593873; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.15559907423891625; Max. 1.0; Valid 5617.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:NCpzLddcd1B3O/+Eez+wxA==

Log GDP

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 23.172532136319695; Max. 30.20363426208496; Min. 17.62591552734375; StDev 2.246329262940033; Valid 4706.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:uCuxpD7iVynqs9EobRrtwg==

Log total population

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.5597687651411054; Mean 15.94541843667458; Min. 11.715498924255371; Valid 5033.0; Max. 20.99407196044922

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:1mBRKd10VSGEnq2XI+taXQ==

Trial+TRC+Amnesty

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.5335158837004516; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.26900480683638855; Max. 3.0; Valid 5617.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:qS2ovGNNsBNXfJaEDXOjZg==

Polity 2 score

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.36727790635569574; StDev 7.52726887073121; Min. -10.0; Max. 10.0; Valid 5617.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:eIEr3DGylYnDEFSZVRYUjQ==

Reparations

f2777898 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

1.

yes

0.

no

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; StDev 0.19273517625737846; Max. 1.0; Valid 5617.0; Mean 0.03863272209364387

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ReHQS41bsED6lDBxgF8I9A==

Time

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 5617.0; StDev 10.948926320156124; Mean 20.255474452554747; Min. 1.0; Max. 38.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:givqKzZG6KlOcSU75TDWBw==

Time Squared

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 445.8401608857196; Min. 1.0; Valid 5617.0; Max. 1444.0; Mean 530.1418906889801;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:OMUtQ59yakM+dS5/DdfAnw==

Time Cubed

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 5617.0; StDev 16481.963614438864; Mean 15476.938045219867; Min. 1.0; Max. 54872.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:VPtPHWHJzYqWzj2X9JODWQ==

Country has experienced a transition

f2777898 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

1.

yes

0.

no

Summary Statistics: Valid 5617.0; StDev 0.41371148611666747; Mean 0.2191561331671713; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:FdK2OIcOh9+jDvko5UpUvA==

Adoption of a truth commission

f2777898 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

1.

yes

0.

no

Summary Statistics: Valid 5617.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.026704646608510133; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.16123317455048278

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Ve1RyI6VTLMidg/ibElW5A==

Presence of trials

f2777898 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

1.

yes

0.

no

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.03934484600320483; Max. 1.0; Valid 5617.0; StDev 0.19443137427071447; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:HqiC1kGU3d8Bh/z1GUW1gw==

UN Funded Reparations Program

f2777898 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

0.

no

1.

yes

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.08716696973644616; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.007655332027772923; Valid 5617.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:JuveXLCdFZj7hTvG1MIG5Q==

Worst Human Rights Violation Score

f2777898 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 1.6077977568096833; StDev 1.5870389867344428; Max. 7.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 5617.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:B0ukW7jsHAJgWtoWgshdEA==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

FPA-12-Jun-0079.R1

Notes:

application/octet-stream

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

ReplicationFile2.dta

Notes:

application/x-stata-13