Size matters: Quantifying protest by counting participants

Since the 1970s, catalogs of protest events have been at the heart of research on social movements. Sociologists count the frequency of events to measure how protest changes over time or varies across space, as either the dependent variable or a key independent variable. This measure...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biggs, M
Format: Journal article
Published: SAGE Publications 2016