Size Matters: Quantifying Protest by Counting Participants

Since the 1970s, catalogs of protest events have been at the heart of research on social movements. To measure how protest changes over time or varies across space, sociologists usually count the frequency of events, as either the dependent variable or a key independent variable. An alternative is t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biggs, M
Format: Journal article
Published: SAGE Publications 2015