Acts of Dissent

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.