Where Do We Stand with Newspaper Data?

Ortiz, David; Myers, Daniel J.; Walls, N. Eugene; Diaz, Maria-Elena

doi:10.17813/maiq.10.3.8360r760k3277t42

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“…Newspaper and wire service data represent the best available source of systematic data on tax protest, as with many other forms of protest (Earl, Martin, McCarthy and Soule ). Nevertheless, newspaper coverage of protest events is subject to well‐known selection biases (Koopmans and Rucht ; McAdam and Su ; Oliver and Maney ; Oliver and Myers ; Ortiz, Myers, Walls and Diaz ). We designed our study to minimize these biases to the extent possible.…”

Section: The Comparative Tax Protest Databasementioning

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Tax policy and tax protest in 20 rich democracies, 1980–2010

Martin

Gabay

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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Why are some policies protested more than others? New data on protest against eight categories of taxation in twenty rich democracies from 1980 to 2010 reveal that economically and socially concentrated taxes are protested most, whereas taxes that confer entitlement to benefits are protested least. Other features of policy design often thought to affect the salience or visibility of costs are unimportant for explaining the frequency of protest. These findings overturn a folk theory that political sociology has inherited from classical political economy; clarify the conditions under which policy threats provoke protest; and shed light on how welfare states persist.

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Section: The Comparative Tax Protest Databasementioning

confidence: 99%

Tax policy and tax protest in 20 rich democracies, 1980–2010

Martin

Gabay

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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“…The data thus retrieved provide a sufficiently valid and reliable basis for the cross-national comparisons conducted here. Of course, they are not exempt from the description and selection biases of newspapers discussed in the methodological literature (see Earl et al 2004 andOrtiz et al 2005 for overviews). However, we can be quite confident about our findings.…”

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Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and the Mobilization of the Unemployed: A Cross-National Analysis

Giugni¹

2008

Mobilization: An International Quarterly

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This article follows a revised political opportunity approach to argue that mobilization of underprivileged groups is constrained by the political opportunity structures provided by the institutional context of the country in which they act. Contrary to traditional opportunity theories, it is suggested that their mobilization also depends on a set of opportunities specific to the political or issue field most directly addressed by their claims. I propose to look for these specific opportunities in the institutional approaches to unemployment. I further maintain that such opportunities stem largely from the ways in which a given political or issue field is collectively defined. I apply a theoretical framework stressing both general and specific opportunities as well as the discursive context of claim making to original data on claim making in the unemployment political field in six European countries for the 1995-2002 period. The findings provide some support for the proposed theoretical framework, but also point to its shortcomings, especially in the lack of attention to economic factors.

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“…As with almost any other method of social research, two main shortcomings stem from sources of bias in data collection (Tilly 2002 andHutter 2014). First, the selection bias, meaning that the protest events reported in the news might not be representative of the amount of protests that took place in reality (Oliver and Maney 2000;Earl et al 2004;Ortiz et al 2005;Hutter 2014). Second, the description bias, meaning that for various reasons news reports can contain mistaken, imprecise or incomplete descriptions of an event (Ortiz et al 2005;Tilly 2002).…”

Section: Protest Event Analysismentioning

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The austerity fuelled wave of contention in Croatia – myth or reality?

Balković

2019

Anali Hrvat. politol. druš. (Online)

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Analyses of protest dynamics in Croatia are rare, partially because until know it was not possible to view them systematically. Relying on the newly collected protest event data 2000-2017, this paper describes the main trends and dynamics of protest activities in Croatia in the observed period. It re-examines Beissinger and Sasse's claim about the absence of austerity related protests in Croatia after 2008. The analysis shows that though protests directly addressing austerity were relatively scarce, when the protest set is expanded to protests which demanded free public education, advocated labour rights, and fought for the right to the city, the prevailing thesis about "quietism" in Croatia can be challenged. The paper aims to relate some of the observed protest dynamics to Kerbo's distinction between movements of crisis and movements of affluence. Focusing on the period between the student movement in 2008 until Facebook protests in 2011, it shows that the student movement and "the right to the city" movement preceded Facebook pro- tests in formulating and expressing socio-economic grievances and articulated anti-systemic sentiment. Due to their strong organizational structure, resources and activists' "know-how", these movements resemble Kerbo's movements of affluence. On the other hand, the 2011 Facebook protests lacked organizational structure and continuous engagement and can be seen as movements of crisis.

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Where Do We Stand with Newspaper Data?

Cited by 178 publications

References 75 publications

Tax policy and tax protest in 20 rich democracies, 1980–2010

Tax policy and tax protest in 20 rich democracies, 1980–2010

Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and the Mobilization of the Unemployed: A Cross-National Analysis

The austerity fuelled wave of contention in Croatia – myth or reality?

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