A 2003-2017 qualitative data project supporting an Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) article. It examines the impact of human rights discourses on a militarized security intervention in Bogotá, Colombia. The data was compiled by Lindsay Mayka and includes a news archive, policy documents, and interview transcripts.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the evolution of human rights discourse in media coverage based on the 629-article news archive.
- Studying the policy process and government accountability based on transcripts from Congressional hearings.
- Examining state actor communication strategies based on press releases and social media posts.
- Tracing institutional responses and coordination based on documents from multiple Colombian government agencies.
Strengths
- Includes a constructed news archive of 629 articles from three major Colombian periodicals spanning 15 years (2003-2017).
- Draws on a range of textual sources including policy documents, Congressional hearing transcripts, and responses to freedom-of-information requests.
- Data is part of an Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) project, which likely enhances methodological transparency.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific case study of Bogotá.
Provenance
- Source
- Lindsay Mayka, QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Data was generated from textual sources (news archive, policy documents, hearing transcripts, FOIA responses) and semi-structured interviews.
- Time Range
- 2003-2017
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-20 19:58:26; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Bogotá, Colombia