Der Sammelband geht auf eine Konferenz zurück, die im Sommer 1995 am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) stattfand. Inhalt: I. Methodological Issues: Sidney Tarrow: Studying Contentious Politics: From Event-ful History to Cycles of Collective Action (33-64); Dieter Rucht / Friedhelm Neidhardt: Methodological Issues in Collecting Protest Event Data: Units of Analysis, Sources and Sampling, Coding Problems (65-89); Ruud Koopmans: The Use of Protest Event Data in Comparative Research: Cross-National Comparability, Sampling Methods and Robustness (90-110). II. Protest and the Mass Media: John D. McCarthy / Clark McPhail / Jackie Smith / Louis J. Crishock: Electronic and Print Media Representations of Washington, D. C. Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991: A Demography of Description Bias (113-130); Peter Hocke: Determining the Selection Bias in Local and National Newspaper. Reports on Protest Events (131-163); Clark McPhail / David Schweingruber: Unpacking Protest Events: A Description Bias Analysis of Media Records with Systematic Direct Observations of Collective Action - The 1995 March for Life in Washington, D. C. (164-195). III. Applications: Protest in Different Contexts: Olivier Fillieule: "Plus ça change, Moins ça change." Demonstrations in France During the Nineteen-Eighties (199-226); Pierre Gentile: Radical Right Protest in Switzerland (227-252); Susan Olzak / Johan L. Olivier: Comparative Event Analysis: Black Civil Rights Protest in South Africa and the United States (253-283); Mark R. Beissinger: Event Analysis in Transitional Societies: Protest Mobilization in the Former Soviet Union (284-316); Grzegorz Ekiert / Jan Kubik: Protest Event Analysis in the Study of Democratic Consolidation: Poland, 1989-1993 (317-348).