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A New Picture of Protest

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  • Kraig Beyerlein
  • Peter Barwis
  • Bryant Crubaugh
  • Cole Carnesecca

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The National Study of Protest Events (NSPE) employed hypernetwork sampling to generate the first-ever nationally representative sample of protest events. Nearly complete information about various event characteristics was collected from participants in 1,037 unique protests across the United States in 2010 to 2011. The first part of this article reviews extant methodologies in protest-event research and discusses how the NSPE overcomes their recognized limitations. Next, we detail how the NSPE was conducted and present descriptive statistics for a number of important event characteristics. The hypernetwork sample is then compared to newspaper reports of protests. As expected, we find many differences in the types of events these sources capture. At the same time, the overall number and magnitude of the differences are likely to be surprising. By contrast, little variation is observed in how protesters and journalists described features of the same events. NSPE data have many potential applications in the field of contentious politics and social movements, and several possibilities for future research are outlined.

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  • Kraig Beyerlein & Peter Barwis & Bryant Crubaugh & Cole Carnesecca, 2018. "A New Picture of Protest," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 47(3), pages 384-429, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:somere:v:47:y:2018:i:3:p:384-429
    DOI: 10.1177/0049124116661574
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