Whipping the Cycle

• In Event: New Approaches in Measurement

Brief Overview

The paper creates an indictor measure of protest cycles that can be used to account for the cyclicality of protest event panel data. It uses online mobilization tweets with protest event data measured daily from 2015-2021 to test the indicator.

Author

• Amir Abdul Reda, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, African Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences