Figure 3 Protest Events main statistics: four-month average
° FSMOs: mainly national formal social movement organisations; non-governmental organisations; voluntary associations. Informal SMOs: mainly local social movement organisations, social centres, local committees, etc.
Ñ Disruptiveness: Sum of different forms of action in each event assessed by level of disruptiveness (Conventional= 1; Demonstrative=2; Disruptive=3; Violent=4). Conventional forms are petitions, leafleting and public or informational
meetings; Demonstrative forms are demonstrations, strikes and public symbolic actions; Disruptive Forms are blockages, blitzes, squatting, street or square occupations and similar forms; Violent forms are violence against things (banks, cars, etc.) or against people (for instance clashes against the police). Multi-organisational events: Number of different types of organisation by protest event. Level of coercion: number of police intervention by protest event.
1. No. of Protest Events
2. Type of Organisations Support
°3. Action Repertoires
4. Protest Events Targets
5. Disruptiveness, Multi-Organisation
Events, Level of Coercion
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120
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Protest Events
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20
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50
2009
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CGIL Grassroots Trade Unions
FSMOs Informal SMOs
