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SUMMARY:CMIST Afternoon Seminars: Combining data-sets to test the normali
 zation of protest thesis'
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nScholars have for a long time claimed that protes
 t is becoming an increasingly common thing to do\, and that the people d
 oing it are becoming increasingly normal. But these claims are based on 
 shaky evidence\, often using an 'ever' variant of a question about prote
 st participation\, which artificially inflates trend lines\, and relying
  on a very small sub-sample of protesters. Measuring the extent to which
  protesters are normal requires supplementing data from cross-national s
 amples in which protesters are relatively scarce (e.g. around 3.8% of th
 e population 2008-2014) with data from protest surveys. \n\nWith Natalie
  Shlomo\, I have been experimenting with ways to combine non-random samp
 les from protest surveys with randomised cross-sectional survey data fro
 m the European Social Survey. Three approaches will be compared: 1) weig
 hting the number of protesters and non-protesters according to their fre
 quencies in random samples\; 2) sub-classification using propensity scor
 es\; and 3) sub-classification propensity score matching with ONS benchm
 arks. By so-doing\, we are able to comment about the differences between
  non-protesters and those who protest with varying degrees of intensity 
 and frequency. Our preliminary findings show that those who protest the 
 least are most similar to non-protesters\, whereas those who protest mor
 e are substantively different. Overall\, it has not been possible to sub
 stantiate the claim that protesters are normal.\n\nNo registration neede
 d. All Welcome. Tea & coffee from 15:45. \n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:2.07\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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