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Appendix A: Validation Exercise
Appendix A: Validation Exercise
Pages 95-102
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The evidence reviewed by the committee suggests that research can, in principle, measure whether police reforms can support basic tenets of and potentially improve the ROL. The committee identified candidate measures that satisfy requirements of basic face validity and are regularly produced for multiple countries over multiple years.
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We use the Latent Human Rights Protection Scores constructed by Fariss, Kenwick, and Reuning (2020) .3 As Figure A-2 makes clear, there is a strong positive and significant relationship between V-DEM's Rule of Law Index and a country's human rights score.
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Here, V-DEM's index of Electoral Democracy is used; it has a 0.82 correlation with the ROL Index. The strong correlation between regime type and the rule of law is not simply a function of how V-DEM constructs both measures.
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,4 a strong correlation is again found between regime type and the rule of law; see Figure A-4. Interestingly, the strong positive correlation between a country's level of democracy and its commitment to the rule of law is observed at all income levels.
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We explore this correlation in Figure A-6, which examines wealth per capita. As the figure illustrates, with few exceptions, on average, richer countries exhibit stronger commitment to the rule of law.
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and the y-coordinate its V-Dem ROL Index value, subgrouped by World Bank's income designation. There are 172 countries included.
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There are 162 countries included.
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