Dieter Rucht, Ruud Koopmans, and Friedholm Neidhardt are members of the Research Unit 'Social Movements and the Public Sphere' at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Berlin, Germany.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Protest as a Subject of Empirical ResearchPart 2 Methodological IssuesChapter 3 Studying Contentious Politics: From Event-ful History to Cycles of Collective ActionChapter 4 Methodological Issues in Collecting Protest Event Data: Units of Analysis, Sources and Sampling, Coding ProblemsChapter 5 The Use of Protest Event Data in Comparative Research: Cross-National Comparability, Sampling Methods and RobustnessPart 6 Protest and the Mass MediaChapter 7 Electronic and Print Media Representations of Washington, DC Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991: A Demography of Description BiasChapter 8 Determining Selection Bias in Local and National Newspaper Reports on Protest EventsChapter 9 Unpacking Protest Events: A Description Bias Analysis of Media Records with Systematic Direct Observations of Collective Action-The 1995 March for Life on Washington, DCPart 10 Applications: Protest in Different ContextsChapter 11 “Plus ça change, moins ça change.” Demonstrations in France During the Nineteen-EightiesChapter 12 Radical Protest in SwitzerlandChapter 13 Comparative Event Analysis: Black Civil Rights Protest in South Africa and the United StatesChapter 14 Event Analysis in Transitional Societies: Protest Mobilization in the Former Soviet UnionChapter 15 Protest Event Analysis in the Study of Democratic Consolidation: Poland, 1989-1993

This edited volume makes a useful addition to the literature on protest.