Sarah Bush's Annotation for Transparent Inquiry project explores the relationship between human rights and democracy promotion fields. The research relies on primary source material from state agencies, international organizations, philanthropies, NGOs, and 20 semi-structured interviews. It was harvested by the Qualitative Data Repository and last updated on October 20, 2025.
Use Cases
- Analyzing boundary policing strategies between fields based on the described qualitative evidence.
- Studying the role of anchoring norms (cosmopolitan vs. statist) in field maintenance.
- Examining historical institutionalist accounts of global political practice.
- Training models on qualitative annotations linking source excerpts to analytic claims.
Strengths
- Includes 20 semi-structured interviews with key personnel.
- Draws from multiple primary source types: state agencies, international organizations, philanthropies, and NGOs.
- Provides digital annotations linking source excerpts to manuscript claims.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Qualitative research supplemented by digital annotations.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-20 19:59:04; freshness should be verified.