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.”

PolDem is online! Please follow us on twitter (@PolDemData) and regularly check our website. We will release updates of the two major PolDem datasets on national election campaigns (poldem-election_all) and protest events (poldem-protest_30) in the coming months. Moreover, we will soon release an R package for the pipeline used to construct our semi-automated protest event data. Take care, your PolDem team.

New article based on Contentious Episode Dataset (poldem-cea_sequences). Check out the EJPR article by Abel Bojar and Hanspeter Kriesi on “Action repertoires in contentious episodes: What determines governments’ and challengers’ action strategies? A cross‐national analysis.”

New articles based on Protest Event Dataset for 30 European countries (poldem-protest_30). Check out the EJPR article by Björn Bremer, Swen Hutter, and Hanspeter Kriesi on “Dynamics of protest and electoral politics in the Great Recession.”