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What works for APSA Maintain the Commons Shape Climate Provide infrastructure Convene Voice. Common Meeting Space Group Focussed Multiple user perspectives: scholar; donor; advocate; etc. Specialists meeting each other Problem Focussed
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What works for APSA • Maintain the Commons • Shape Climate • Provide infrastructure • Convene • Voice
Common Meeting Space • Group Focussed • Multiple user perspectives: scholar; donor; advocate; etc. • Specialists meeting each other • Problem Focussed • Indicators as analytically descriptive v. policy/advocacy levers • Dogs that don’t bark • Meta-analysis • Everything else
Data Forum • Facilitate Production and Use of High Quality Data • Processes for replication • Legitimacy of data sets in highly charged settings • Archive of data sets • Omnibus Global Governance Dataset
Quality Infrastructure • Caliber of data • General elements of what everyone agrees a dataset should have • Users Guides for production of measures and indicators • Warning labels on indicators: Subnational variation may be large • Training • International work re: experts in each country • Advocacy for Data • More resources for data – US • Heighten data infrastructure in importance in development
Certification of Indicators • Accreditation • Consultancy • Review teams/Clearinghouse of experts • Legitimacy • Can APSA contribute to this? • Research Monographs/Journals
Indicator Space • Frame “indicator space” itself • What’s being measured/what’s not • What capacities to do more • Build new entries into Indicator Space • Organized Sections
Sanctuary • Safe House/Witness Protection • Place to go if coding is driving you to drink, and sending you undercover • Voice for protecting integrity of data against political threats and manipulation