What I need help to: I do not need help to a complete project, however only to the analysis-part, that is STATA-
coding/testing and analysis of results. More specifically, making the relevant coding in Stata (recodes, tests, handling
of missing values, relevant analysis, item-item), that is OLS at two points in time, and analyse it. I also need help with what could constitute a few control variables. It is important to notice, that this project is relatively short, why the analysis should only .
Project as I imagine: I must investigate whether ratification of the European Convention of Human Rights (and the Court) (47 member states) effects the level of political terror (state inflicted terror) or compliance rate (compliance meaning that countries live up to the convention) and then I imagine to compare with additional countries. With background in compliance theories I assume that despite conventions and courts should change behaviour, they actually provide with a possibility to go on with same behaviour but just pay substitute. Ratification(of ECHR) ? compliance (with ECHR, measured by state terror level) Data set: I will primarily use the political terror scale dataset (PTS), that covers every country in the world and their political terror (state inflicted violations) from 1976 to 2015. Maybe I will include the Compliance with Human Rights Tribunals (CHRT) dataset, that among others covers judgments towards the 47 member states, I’m not sure whether it is relevant.
Procedure: Therefore, using STATA and OLS, I should test this at two points in time (at least) and compare with
additional countries not in the convention. However, since some of the 47 countries did ratify the convention before
and during the dataset figures, I think it would be sufficient to test two points in time after the most present ratification in 2004, but I’m not sure whether I should only use some of the original states to the convention to prolong the period, since 2004-2015 is not a long period. And maybe afterwards compare with the other dataset CHRT and check if there is a correlation with the number of judgments, if countries with many judgments have the most state terror level and so forth.
Variables:
Compliance (from PTS-data, means whether countries are living up to the convention), should be measured as
compliance vs. noncompliance (the PTS has a 1-5 scale, should be recoded 1+2 should be compliance and the rest
noncompliance)
Ratification: (from the PTS-data covering all countries in the world) is whether a country has signed the convention Timelag covering the two points in time Control variables