A replication database for the paper 'Disconnection and Disorder: Internet Shutdowns, Protest Violence, and Infrastructural Coercion in the Global South'. It contains original merged datasets and scripts. The data was authored by ZHANG, YANG and hosted on Harvard Dataverse, last updated on 2026-06-26.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the relationship between internet shutdowns and protest violence based on merged event data.
- Replicating statistical models of infrastructural coercion described in the associated paper.
- Studying the temporal and geographic patterns of state-imposed internet disruptions in the Global South.
Strengths
- Original merged datasets created for a specific academic paper.
- Includes replication scripts, facilitating reproducibility of the study's findings.
- Hosted on Harvard Dataverse, a reputable academic data repository.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Original merged datasets created for academic research.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-26 11:41:15; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Global South