The use of protest event data in comparative research: cross-national comparability, sampling methods and robustness
The use of protest event data in comparative research: cross-national comparability, sampling methods and robustness
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抗议事件数据在比较研究中的使用:跨国可比性、抽样方法和稳健性
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1998
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R. Koopmans
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This chapter discusses some of the central issues concerning the problems and uses of newspaper-based protest event data, referring to experiences gathered in the context of a comparative research project on the development of new social movements (NSMs) in Western Europe. The project started in 1988 and was recently concluded. Principal collaborators were Hanspeter Kriesi, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Marco Giugni and the present author. Data were gathered on protest events (of NSMs and other movements, with the exclusion of labor strikes, see below) in four Western European countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland) for the period from 1975 to 1989. For Germany and the Netherlands, data were also gathered for the years 1965 through 1974, albeit based on a smaller sample. Recently, the data set has been extended to include protest events in Great Britain between 1975 and 1989, and in Spain (also based on a smaller sample) between 1977 and 1989 (see Koopmans 1996a).6 Originally, the research design of the project was rather conventional and did not envisage the gathering of protest event data. The idea was to gather data on