Proteste und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt: Lokale Konfliktdynamiken im Vergleich [Protests and social cohesion: comparing local conflict dynamics]
Local protest event data

Abstract:
The data set includes information on public protest events in four large German cities (Leipzig, Dresden, Bremen, Stuttgart) as reported by the cities' respective largest local newspaper. The articles were selected based on a semi-automated procedure involving state-of-the-art transformer-based classification models and were then hand annotated to extract information on place, date, topic, action form, interaction with police, counterprotest, and other variables. The intended covered time period is 2000-2020. Currently, the covered time period is 2011-2020.

Contributor:
Meier, Larissa; Dollbaum, Jan Matti

Funding Institution:
BMBF

Temporal Coverage:
1/2000 - 12/2020

Time Dimension:
daily (can be aggregated to months, years, etc)

Sampled Universe:
all protest events reported in four German local newspapers

Sampling:
full coverage

Collection Mode:
annotation of local newspapers (semi-automated)

Geograhic Coverage:
Leipzig, Dresden, Bremen, Stuttgart

Resource Type:
csv file

Availability:
The data is not yet publicly available, since it is still incomplete. When completed, it will be made available to the RDC-RISC.

Institution:
RDC-RISC