Published on Friday, June 19, 2015 | Updated on Thursday, November 19, 2015
Document number 15/20
An Empirical Assessment of Social Unrest Dynamics and State Response in Eurasian Countries
Summary
This paper shows an empirical assessment of Social Unrest Dynamics in the Eurasian countries. We use a Big Database of social events (GDELT) to build several real time indexes of different stages of social unrest escalation consistent with the Unrest Lifecycle Theory and together with alternative measures of the state response.
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- Geostrategy
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Working paper 15.20 An Empirical Assessment of Social Unrest Dynamics and State Response
English - June 19, 2015
Authors
GD
Gonzalo De Cadenas Santiago
AG
Alicia García-Herrero
AO
Alvaro Ortiz
BBVA Research - Head of Analysis with Big Data
TR
Tomasa Rodrigo
BBVA Research - Lead Economist
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