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Political Terror Scale is a yearly measure of state inflicted political terror. It was developed in the early 1980s by researchers at Purdue University and is currently managed by Mark Gibney of the University of North Carolina at Asheville.〔Wood and Gibney 2010, p. 369.〕 ==Introduction== The Political Terror Scale is a yearly measure of terror inflicted upon a population. "Terror" is defined as state terror, or violations of physical and personal integrity rights carried out by the state or its agents. Examples of political terror include extrajudicial killings, torture, disappearances, and political imprisonment. Originally, only 59 countries were coded for within the database between 1976 and 1983. In 1984, Mark Gibney took over as manager of the database and expanded the list of countries coded to 180 and the range of years to the most recent years available (currently 2012).〔Wood and Gibney 2010, p. 369〕 The Political Terror Scale uses three sources to code each country: The State Department's ''Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,'' the ''Annual Report'' from Amnesty International and most recently the ''World Report'' from Human Rights Watch.〔Wood and Gibney 2010, p. 372.〕 The database can be viewed and downloaded from its (website ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Political terror scale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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