Social Protest and Policy Innovation: Italy, 1966-1973

<p>This collection contains data relating to social protest and resulting policy innovation in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Data were collected from Italian newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, as well as other sources of data. The data tabulate "protest events", which are defined as encounters in which protestors, organized or unorganized, take direct action to disrupt either private or public authority or both to demand changes in policy, benefits, or institutions. The changes are of two general types: 1) Those which, if satisfied, would accord new advantages to the group; 2) Those which, if satisfied, would open new channels of influence and/or participation to the group. Protest events must be disruptive to be included in the study. For each event, information is collected on the nature of the event; the numbers, actors, and formations involved; the grievance of the protestors, its sources, and their targets and/or objects; the immediate outcomes; the protest's relations, if any, to existing organizations; and the possible responses of other groups, organizations, and authorities to the event. These events are then linked to short and medium term socio-economic and aggregate strike data.</p>