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Как да изследваме количествено динамиките на революции, бунтове и протести? Анализът на колективни събития
How to Quantify the Dynamics of Revolutions, Riots and Protests? The Analysis of Collective Events

Author(s): Ivaylo Dinev
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Political Theory, Civil Society, Economic history, History of ideas, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Security and defense, Politics and society, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Communism, Post-Communist Transformation, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: events analysis; contentious politics; repertoires of contention; social history

Summary/Abstract: The article presents one of the traditional methods in the social sciences for the research and explanation of long-term historical processes such as revolutions, riots, uprisings, protest cycles and waves – the analysis of the collective events. The steps in collecting and coding a quantitative database, the types of sources, procedures, techniques and potential biases are discussed. The application of the method in historical science is illustrated by Sidney Tarow's study of the protest cycle in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. The end of the article contains some of the most popular publicly available databases for collective mobilizations indifferent historical periods and describes possible directions for historical research.

  • Issue Year: 29/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 287-302
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bulgarian