They reduce the complex reality of five years in a country to a condensed statement with comments and recommendations, which typically reflects the most critical and meaningful problems in the country under review from the perspective of the reviewing state. [...] In other words, there is an asymmetry of the variations between the quantity and the quality of the reviews. [...] To calculate the scaled weighted index for Egypt in Cycle 2, the analysis rescales the number of reviews from 321 to 1.85 and calculates the average weighted severity index of the review recommendations, resulting in 2.2. [...] In particular, I calculate a cosine similarity between each pair of reviewing states and China by first constructing a matrix where the distribution of each country’s state-topic vector is compared to that of China’s state- topic vector, and then calculating the cosine similarity between the two vectors of a country pair: China and the reviewing state.5 5 A cosine value of 0 means that the two vec. [...] The closer the cosine value to 1, the smaller the angle and the greater the match between vectors.
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Table of Contents
- Working Paper No. 6 September 2024 1
- Human Rights as China’s Achilles’ Heel 6
- Expectations 8
- The UPR as a laboratory 10
- Converting Text to Number: Quantifying Information in the UPR 12
- Measuring Recommendations’ Leniency 12
- Aggregation: Review Harshness Score at the Country Level 15
- Measuring States’ Predisposition to Human Rights Norms 16
- Model Specification 18
- Results 21
- Testing the “Mutual Exchange” Hypothesis 21
- Testing the “Swaying the Middle” Hypothesis 22
- Does the UPR Matter? A Case of UN Resolution Votes 26
- Conclusion 28
- References 30
- Appendix A. Tags Under Each Issue Topic 35
- Appendix B. Cosine Similarity with China 36
- Appendix C. Results: Complete Models 44
