Data

Data

The Far-Right Protest Observatory provides interactive tools for data exploration and analysis, as well as the methodology and codebooks used for data generation and analysis.

Here, you can find a description of the main datasets made available by FARPO.

Vox party supporters in Madrid, Spain (2019)
Type of protest events in Europe (CFP data 2008-2021)
Front National rally in Paris, France (2012)

Original FARPE dataset

Short Description
Protest events by most active far-right collective actor
Dataset name
FARPE
Country selection
Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom
Selected far-right groups
Identitare Bewegung; VMRO; EKRE ; Les Identitaires; NPD; PEGIDA; Golden Dawn; Jobbik; CasaPound Italia; Ruch Narodowy; ĽSNS; Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen; EDL; Britain First
Time span
2008-2018
Issues
All issues
Status
Completed
Anonymized
Yes
Release date
29.02.2024

Expanded CFP dataset

Short Description
Protest Events by all far-right collective actors
Dataset name
CFP
Country selection
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden
Selected far-right groups
Expanded list of relevant far-right political parties, movements and movement-parties (developed in consultation with country experts and integrated via snowball sampling)
Time span
2008-2021
Issues
All issues
Status
Data collection completed
Anonymized
Yes
Release date
Expected: 2025

How to cite

The data is all freely available to download and use, as long as you cite the Observatory as follows.


Recommended reference for FARPE data
Castelli Gattinara Pietro, Froio Caterina, et Pirro Andrea. (2022) Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources. European Journal of Political Research, 61(4), 1019-1041. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12484.

Recommended reference for CFP data
Available upon data release

Credit for media use
Castelli Gattinara Pietro, Caterina Froio, Andrea Pirro, Iris Beau Segers and Anders Ravik Jupskas, The Far-Right Protest Observatory, farpo.eu