Protest movements as deadly as Iran’s often end in revolution or civil war

This repository contains replication code for the article Lifting the veil, published in the December 10th, 2022 issue.

We thank ACLED for answering our questions about this data.

Map:

How to run:

Note: the raw data to update and replicate the analysis must be downloaded from ACLED, and placed in the "source-data/acled" folder. In addition, the list of downloaded events (available at the same link) must be placed in the "source-data/acled-deleted" folder.

Citation:

If referencing this data in an academic paper or article, please cite the ACLED data:

Raleigh, Clionadh, Andrew Linke, Håvard Hegre, and Joakim Karlsen. (2010). “Introducing ACLED-Armed Conflict Location and Event Data.” Journal of Peace Research 47(5) 651- 660.

and

The Economist and Solstad, S. (corresponding author), 2022. Lifting the veil. Published in The Economist, December 10th issue, 2022.