From Protests to Popularity

Youth, Protests and the Polycrisis - UNICEF

In the early 2010s, mostly young people led a wave of popular uprisings in the Arab world, beginning in Tunisia, in response to corruption and economic ...

Has every cause of mass student protest in the US eventually ...

"Popular sentiment" also can be tricky to grapple with. I think at least some of the student protests in Puerto Rico might qualify, like from ...

American Public's Attitudes toward Protest Movements

Even the most popular protest events have support levels that hover below half, and positive responses are rarely higher than negative ones.

The majority of the public believe protests rarely, if ever, make a ...

Most Britons – including protestors themselves – say that disruptive protests do more to hinder than help a cause.

Speaking and Protesting in America

By learning about our right to protest and the historic protests of the past, we can gain insight into how the freedom to speak out and challenge popular ...

The Seeds of Change: Popular Protests as Constitutional Moments

Bruce Ackerman's influential theory of “dualist democracy” posits that in American history some extraordinary moments of constitution- making are ...

10 biggest protests in history - Live Science

Indian farmers protest (2020-2021) · George Floyd and Black Lives Matter (2020) · Women's March (2017) · Anti-Iraq War protests (2003) · Tiananmen ...

The Complexities of Global Protests

Some observers detect a basic pattern of protest ineffectiveness: new protest movements seem to succeed in stirring up street activity but fail ...

The George Floyd Protests: A Global Rallying Cry for Democracy

Following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, public outcry over police brutality and systemic racism ignited popular protests across the ...

The history of American protest music, from “Yankee Doodle ... - Vox

As the Vietnam War drew to a close — after inspiring a plethora of popular protest songs — the 1980s and '90s gave way to a relatively calmer ...

Why big protests aren't a good measure of popular power | OUPblog

The recent wave of protests of the Black Lives Matters movement in the United States and around the world has opened up a space of political ...

We develop a model which exploits this link to isolate an informational mechanism connecting popular protests and coups. Protests aggregate citizen information.

No. Protest is about making things uncomfortable for those in power. So the consequences of an "online protest" would be too easy for the ...

What Americans think about recent pro-Palestinian campus protests

Nearly half of people oppose the protests, while around one in four support them. Few support demonstrators' calls for divestment.

The evidence suggests that African social movements are uniquely effective and that political and military elites are increasingly trying to harness their ...

Culture in a Yellow Vest: The Role of Popular Culture in Social Protest

Using the Civil Sphere's EMM-Framing theory,. I argue that if protesters can use popular culture to tap into the emotive, moral, and mnemonic.

2020 Was The Year Of Protest Music - NPR

Chris Pierce, "American Silence". 2020's protest playlist is as diverse as popular music itself, but there's still room for a good old folk ...

The activist's dilemma: Extreme protest actions reduce popular ...

How do protest actions impact public support for social movements? Here we test the claim that extreme protest actions—protest behaviors perceived to be ...

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster ...

Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Popular Support for Social ...

Social movements are critical agents of change that vary greatly in both tactics and popular support. Prior work shows that extreme protest ...