Protest Event Dataset for Croatia, Portugal, Serbia and Spain

Abstract

‘Disobedient Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of Contentious Politics in the European Semi-periphery’ is a research project implemented by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb, in the period 2016-2021, led by Principal Investigator Danijela Dolenec and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (IZ11Z0_166540 – PROMYS). The overall objective of the project is to explore how protest politics advances democracy by collecting and analyzing data on protest mobilizations in four countries: Portugal, Spain, Croatia and Serbia.‎

Democracy in Croatia: From stagnant 1990s to rapid change 2000–2011

“…4 EU information on membership, accession and requirements are from the European Commission (2016) and academic sources (e.g. Dolenec, 2008;Maldini and Pauković, 2016;Marinković, 2011;Matić, 2008).…”

Keeping a roof over your head: housing and anti-debt movements in Croatia and Serbia during the Great Recession

“…The first source of data for our analysis is the PEA dataset for Croatia and Serbia (Dolenec et al 2020). To address the issue of newspaper source bias (cf.…”

“…McCarthy et al 1996, Koopmans 1998, Earl et al 2004, Ortiz et al 2005, Hutter 2014), for each of the countries, we selected two quality national dailies that have the highest circulation, and which "lean" left or right respectively: Večernji list and Jutarnji list for Croatia, Politika and Danas for Serbia. Our dataset is not a sample but instead includes all printed newspaper issues published in the given period (see Dolenec et al 2020). Given our focus on the Great Recession and its aftermath, we analyse the period between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2017.…”

Possibility of non-institutional political participation within the non-responsive system of Serbia: The impact of (dis)trust and internal political efficiency

“…Važno je napomenuti da, iako se poslednjih nekoliko godina literatura sve više bavi fenomenom društvenih pokreta i građanskih protesta u Srbiji i regionu Zapadnog Balkana (Delibašić et al, 2018;Pudar Draško et al, 2019;Pešić & Petrović, 2020), nedostaju nam tačni podaci o tome koliko su ovi fenomeni zapravo rasprostranjeni danas. Uvid u broj protestnih aktivnosti u Srbiji od 2000. do 2017. može se naći u Dolenec et al (2020) gde se jasno vidi da nakon pada broja protesta po godini, koji se dogodio 2010. godine, trend ponovo kreće uzlaznom putanjom dostižući broj od 181 protesta u 2017. godini. Nažalost podaci o rasprostranjenosti i brojnosti protesta i drugih vaninstitucionalnih praksi političke participacije nakon 2017. nisu dostupni.…”