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Chapter 1 Introduction: Protest as a Subject of Empirical Research Part 2 Methodological Issues Chapter 3 Studying Contentious Politics: From Event-ful History to Cycles of Collective Action Chapter 4 Methodological Issues in Collecting Protest Event Data: Units of Analysis, Sources and Sampling, Coding Problems Chapter 5 The Use of Protest Event Data in Comparative Research: Cross-National Comparability, Sampling Methods and Robustness Part 6 Protest and the Mass Media Chapter 7 Electronic and Print Media Representations of Washington, DC Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991: A Demography of Description Bias Chapter 8 Determining Selection Bias in Local and National Newspaper Reports on Protest Events Chapter 9 Unpacking Protest Events: A Description Bias Analysis of Media Records with Systematic Direct Observations of Collective Action-The 1995 March for Life on Washington, DC Part 10 Applications: Protest in Different Contexts Chapter 11 Plus ca change, moins ca change. Demonstrations in France During the Nineteen-Eighties Chapter 12 Radical Protest in Switzerland Chapter 13 Comparative Event Analysis: Black Civil Rights Protest in South Africa and the United States Chapter 14 Event Analysis in Transitional Societies: Protest Mobilization in the Former Soviet Union Chapter 15 Protest Event Analysis in the Study of Democratic Consolidation: Poland, 1989-1993
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