A tribute to Ron Francisco's life work

European Protest &
Coercion Dashboard

The most detailed daily-resolution record of political contention and state repression in modern Europe. Prof. Ron Francisco (University of Kansas) spent decades assembling this remarkable dataset — 29 countries, 16 years, and 88,000 coded events from strikes and demonstrations to arrests and bombings.

88,656
Coded Events
29
Countries
16
Years (1980–1995)
54,708
Protest Events
10,853
Repression Events
What's inside

Four ways to explore the data

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Overview

Summary statistics, a full protest & repression timeline across all 29 countries, top countries by protest activity, and breakdowns of the most common action types and issue categories.

All 88K events
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Trends

Filter by country (one or many) and year range. See annual time series for protest days, repression days, protest rate, and more. Explore a scatter of protest vs. repression at the country-year level.

Interactive filters
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Events

Search and browse all 88,000+ individual coded events by keyword, country, year, action type, or issue. Export any filtered set to CSV or Excel. Includes protest size, state actor counts, and event descriptions.

Searchable · Exportable
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Models

Run your own statistical models in-browser. Choose from OLS, logit, or Poisson estimators with country and year fixed effects. Independent variables include lagged protest/repression, GDP per capita, unemployment, and population from the World Bank.

OLS · Logit · Poisson · FE
Coverage

29 European Countries, 1980–1995

Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France West Germany (FRG) East Germany (GDR) Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
Data: Francisco, R. (2000). European Protest and Coercion Data. University of Kansas. Original data available at ronfran.ku.edu/data.  ·  Dashboard: Charles Crabtree, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University and K-Club Professor, University College, Korea University.  ·  Code: github.com/lobsterbush/francisco-protest-dashboard