Welcome to the Latin American Political Protest website based out of Midwestern State University. For the best way to learn about the LAPP project read the FAQ section below. To enter the data section of the LAPP project click here http://faculty.mwsu.edu/politicalscience/steve.garrison/lappdata/lapp.asp

 What is LAPP?

LAPP is a data collection project that seeks to create country specific data sets covering all domestic protests in the Latin American region.

LAPP utilizes advances in computer and internet technologies to create daily collected interval level data sets providing a greater level of detail than existing data sets that are either cross-national in nature with a high degree of aggregation (COW) or country specific data sets that are collected at the ordinal level (VICDP).  For a comparable project see Ron Francisco's European Protest and Coercion site.

Wire service reports covering all domestic protest events are downloaded from the Internet. These stories are cleaned with the use of filters created as part of the Kansas Events Data Project (KEDS), an automated machine-coding program. (For more information on the KEDS project visit their web site http://www.ukans.edu/~keds/). The cleaned data is then read and coded by human coders.

Any protest event that occurs inside the country of study is coded. This includes sit-ins, open demonstrations, riots, assassinations, strikes, military encounters, sabotage, kidnappings etc. Threats are not coded. Each action is coded for type of action, protestor, target, location, the number of actors present on both sides as well as injured, killed, arrested or kidnapped, and the reason for the action. Also the duration of the event and any related date are collected.

LAPP intends to build country specific data sets for the entire Latin American region covering the time period from 1980 to the year 2000.

Currently the status of LAPP is as follows:

Bolivia 1999 & 2004 (Coded by Carew Boulding)

Colombia 1988-1998

El Salvador 1979-1991

Peru 1980-1995

How Reliable is the LAPP data?

For a reliability evalutaiton see the following paper: Evaluation.doc

Is the LAPP project available to the academic community?

Yes. Use of LAPP is encouraged. Just remember to acknowledge the author with the following information.

Latin American Political Protest Project (LAPP)

Steve R Garrison

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Follow this link for the data and full codebook on the LAPP project

http://faculty.mwsu.edu/politicalscience/steve.garrison/lappdata/lapp.asp

Papers using LAPP data: here