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- Contention in Times of Crisis
- Contention in Times of Crisis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Part I A Study of Protest in Thirty European Countries
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Design and Methods of Semi-automated Protest Event Analysis
- 3 External Validation of Protest Event Analysis
- Part II Trends in Protest in the Great Recession
- Part III Sources of Protest
- Part IV Interaction Between Convention and Contention
- References
- Index
2 - Design and Methods of Semi-automated Protest Event Analysis
from Part I - A Study of Protest in Thirty European Countries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2020
- Contention in Times of Crisis
- Contention in Times of Crisis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Part I A Study of Protest in Thirty European Countries
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Design and Methods of Semi-automated Protest Event Analysis
- 3 External Validation of Protest Event Analysis
- Part II Trends in Protest in the Great Recession
- Part III Sources of Protest
- Part IV Interaction Between Convention and Contention
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter explains how we identified and coded protest events over a period of sixteen years in thirty European countries. We present the semi-automated approach that combines natural language processing tools for the identification of relevant news documents and then discuss the manual annotation for a precise coding of protest events from multiple sources that publish news content in English. The semi-automated part allows us to deal with a large number of documents identified through keyword searches, namely 5 million documents. The manual annotation, in turn, guarantees that we are able to distinguish different protest forms, actors, and the issues at play. Our endeavor resulted in a dataset of 30,000 unique protest events that we use in this book to study contentious politics during the Great Recession.
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- Contention in Times of CrisisRecession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, pp. 29 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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