Protest events in international press coverage: An empirical critique of cross-national conflict databases

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 163-180

  Herkenrath, Mark ^a   Knoll, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

conflict data; Latin America; measurement error; media selection bias; protest event analysis; quantitative cross national research; social movements

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MASS MEDIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULAR PROTEST; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

ARGENTINA; LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PARAGUAY;

EID: 79957855193     PISSN: 00207152     EISSN: 17452554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020715211405417     Document Type: Article

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