cover image: Introducing the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns (ARC) dataset

20.500.12592/m9rvzs

Introducing the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns (ARC) dataset

18 Jan 2022

These data facilitate new measurements of key concepts in the study of contentious politics, such as the social and ideological diversity of resistance episodes, in addition to measures of network centralization and fragmentation. [...] often central to theories of the onset, dynamics, and outcomes of violent and nonviolent resistance cam- a paigns (Bethke & Pinckney, 2019; Belgioioso, 2018; Norwegian University of Science and Technologyb Brancati, 2016; Celestino & Gleditsch, 2013; Cheno- University of ArizonacUnited States Institute of Peace weth & Stephan, 2011; Huang, 2016; Schaftenaar, dPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) 2. [...] vides information on the features of organizations that participated in nonviolent and violent dissent, while Core concepts in ARC also going beyond self-determination or ethnonation- alist movements (Cunningham, Dahl & Frugé, 2020; The ARC dataset focuses on organizations that partici- Wilkenfeld, Asal & Pate, 2011), or armed groups alone pated in acts of collective dissent for goals of maximali. [...] A nizations that participated in events of maximalist col- more detailed description of the rules for coding fronts lective dissent, and then we recorded information on the features of those organizations. [...] Rebel groups dissent for tions between socio-economic factors and the number of longer (3.6 years on average) and more continuously organizations of different types engaged in maximalist (they have the lowest variance around the mean par- dissent.
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Authors

Charles Butcher, Jessica Maves Braithwaite, Jonathan Pinckney, Eirin Haugseth, Ingrid Vik Bakken, and Marius Swane Wishman

Pages
12
Published in
Norway