| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Protest events in international press coverage : an empirical critique of cross-national conflict databases |
| Authors: | Herkenrath, Mark Knoll, Alex |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0020715211405417 |
| Published in: | International Journal of Comparative Sociology |
| Volume(Issue): | 52 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page(s): | 163 |
| Pages to: | 180 |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Sage |
| ISSN: | 0020-7152 1745-2554 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject (DDC): | 303: Social processes |
| Abstract: | The empirical analysis of protest events and other expressions of social conflict is one of the core tasks of the discipline of comparative sociology. The numerous international data sets and empirical country comparisons that rely exclusively on reporting in English-language newspapers such as The New York Times in surveying protest events nevertheless suffer from considerable distortions. Using the example of some 1800 protest events in Argentina, Mexico and Paraguay in the year 2006, the present study shows that there are remarkable differences between national and international (English-language) newspapers when it comes to frequency of reporting. On the one hand, a mere 5.3 percent of all protest events that are reported nationally also attract the attention of the international press. On the other hand, the percentage of international reporting depends considerably and to a statistically significant extent on the country in which the protest takes place. Besides, these country differences persist when additional protest characteristics (e.g. the number of participants, the participation of renowned personalities and the escalation of the protest into rioting) are controlled by means of multivariate logistic regressions. The measurement error that results when surveying protest events on the strength of coverage in the English-language international press is therefore not constant across countries. The frequently used data sets like the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators or the Cross-National Time Series Data Archive launched by Arthur Banks are thus proving to be highly questionable sources for international comparisons in protest and conflict research. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/25965 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Social Work |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Childhood, Youth and Family (IKJF) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Soziale Arbeit |
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Herkenrath, M., & Knoll, A. (2011). Protest events in international press coverage : an empirical critique of cross-national conflict databases. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 52(3), 163–180. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715211405417
Herkenrath, M. and Knoll, A. (2011) ‘Protest events in international press coverage : an empirical critique of cross-national conflict databases’, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 52(3), pp. 163–180. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715211405417.
M. Herkenrath and A. Knoll, “Protest events in international press coverage : an empirical critique of cross-national conflict databases,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 163–180, 2011, doi: 10.1177/0020715211405417.
HERKENRATH, Mark und Alex KNOLL, 2011. Protest events in international press coverage : an empirical critique of cross-national conflict databases. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 2011. Bd. 52, Nr. 3, S. 163–180. DOI 10.1177/0020715211405417
Herkenrath, Mark, and Alex Knoll. 2011. “Protest Events in International Press Coverage : An Empirical Critique of Cross-National Conflict Databases.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 52 (3): 163–80. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715211405417.
Herkenrath, Mark, and Alex Knoll. “Protest Events in International Press Coverage : An Empirical Critique of Cross-National Conflict Databases.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, vol. 52, no. 3, 2011, pp. 163–80, https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715211405417.
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