Using machine-coded event data for the micro-level study of political violence

Research and Politics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Hammond, Jesse ^a,b   Weidmann, Nils B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event data; Geographic information system; Global Database of Events; Language and Tone; Micro level analysis; Political violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924814043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053168014539924     Document Type: Article

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