Observatory for Political Conflict and Democracy in Europe

European University Institute WZB Berlin Social Science Center Center for Civil Society Research WZB Berlin Social Science Center Center for Civil Society Research

The Observatory

The Observatory for Political Conflict and Democracy (PolDem) is a platform that produces and houses data on protest events, election campaigns, and issue-specific public contestation covering a wide-range of European countries over a long period of time. The platform developed as an extension of previous as well as ongoing projects by the principal investigators Hanspeter Kriesi at the European University Institute, and Edgar Grande and Swen Hutter at the Center for Civil Society Research, a joint initiative by the WZB Social Science Center and Freie Universität Berlin.

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News

New book based on Protest Event Dataset (poldem-protest_30) is now published at Cambridge University Press: “Contention in Times of Crisis Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries” edited by Hanspeter Kriesi, Jasmine Lorenzini, Bruno Wuest, Silja Hausermann
New article based on Protest Events Dataset (poldem-protest_30). Check out the Party Politics article by Endre Borbath and Swen Hutter on “Protesting Parties: a comparative analysis.”
New article based on Election Campaigns Dataset (poldem-election_all). Check out the Party Politics article by Endre Borbath on “Two faces of party system stability: Programmatic change and party replacement.”
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Data Overview

The Observatory for Political Conflict and Democracy (PolDem) provides interactive data exploration, visualization, and analysis tools, as well as the methodology and codebooks used for data generation and analysis. Here, you can find a short overview of the main datasets provided by PolDem.

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