This grant funds a proof-of-concept study for an authoritative national database of police-involved shootings. It aims to demonstrate machine learning technologies to detect and classify stories about these events and help to establish whether systemic bias exists, its implications, and how it…
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2018 SBSRI Grant: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Document Uses of Lethal Force by Law Enforcement in Nearly Real Time
Demarcating Episodes of Civil Strife: An Inductive, Iterative Approach
This document outlines the procedures and criteria used to delineate episodes of civil strife for 164 countries in the world for the period from January 1, 1946 to December 31, 2005. Prior research has been handicapped by a lack of data on civil strife events and defensible criteria for…
Climate Change and Civil Unrest: The Impact of Rapid-onset Disasters
This article examines the destabilizing impact of rapid-onset, climate-related disasters. It uses a sample of storms and floods in conjunction with two intensity measures of civil unrest to examine two perspectives on human reactions to disasters (conflictual, cooperative). It also uses insights…
The Coup D'Etat Project (CDP) White Paper
Coup d'états are important events in the life of a country. They constitute an important subset of irregular transfers of political power that can have important and enduring consequences for a country’s well-being. This notwithstanding, a comprehensive and well-documented inventory of coups has…
Media Data and Social Science Research: Problems and Approaches
News media provide a unique source of information on important societal developments, both contemporary and historical. Consequently, over the past forty years, social scientists have attempted to utilize media data to study important questions in a number of fields. But these efforts have been…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Rule of Law Constructs
This article outlines an effort to gauge cross-national and inter-temporal differences in law-based orders for 165 nations from 1850 to 2010. Despite the increasing importance attributed to “the rule of law,” there have been few efforts to develop objective measures of it. The conceptual…
The SPEED Project's Societal Stability Protocol: An Overview
This document provides an introduction to, and an overview of, the SPEED Project's Societal Stability Protocol (SSP). The SSP's aim is to generate event data that will advance our understanding of civil unrest in the post-WWII era. The SSP's focus is on human-initiated destabilizing…