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  • 2 - Design and Methods of Semi-automated Protest Event Analysis

  • from Part I - A Study of Protest in Thirty European Countries
  • Edited by Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute, Florence, Jasmine Lorenzini, Université de Genève, Bruno Wüest, Universität Zürich, Silja Hausermann, Université de Genève
  • Book:
    Contention in Times of Crisis
    Published online:
    13 August 2020
    Print publication:
    13 August 2020, pp 29-48

  • 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.