Over the last decade, a renewed interest in the empirical analysis of contentious politics has led to significant improvements in the quality and quantity of data. The related wave of research has thus turned to analysis of the dynamics of contentious politics from a comparative perspective. Unfortunately, these studies use country level datasets for their analysis, creating a mismatch between the original actor-based theoretical framework and the empirical conceptualization of contentious collective action. We discuss the conceptual challenges this theoretical-empirical gap generates and highlight how contentious dynamics can be studied with a bottom-up sub-national approach. To do so, we present a new fine-grained dataset of contentious collective action in post-conflict Nepal (2007 to 2010). We descriptively show how this type of data can help us improve our understanding of repertoires of contentious politics. This paper highlights the relevance of gathering information on active organizations to study the inherent dynamics of contentious politics.

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地方数据的价值：尼泊尔有争议的政治动态

在过去十年中，对有争议的政治的实证分析重新产生兴趣，导致数据质量和数量的显着提高。因此，相关的研究浪潮已转向从比较的角度分析有争议的政治动态。不幸的是，这些研究使用国家层面的数据集进行分析，造成了原始的基于行动者的理论框架与有争议的集体行动的经验概念化之间的不匹配。我们讨论了这种理论-经验差距产生的概念挑战，并强调了如何使用自下而上的地方方法来研究有争议的动态。为此，我们提出了一个新的细粒度的尼泊尔冲突后集体行动数据集（2007 年至 2010 年）。我们描述性地展示了这种类型的数据如何帮助我们提高对有争议的政治曲目的理解。本文强调了收集有关活跃组织的信息以研究有争议的政治的内在动态的相关性。