TIL the 3.5% rule: 3.5% of a national population peacefully protesting on the streets at once will ALWAYS topple a Dictatorship or democratic government. Moreover peaceful movements succeed twice ...
TIL the 3.5% rule: 3.5% of a national population peacefully protesting on the streets at once will ALWAYS topple a Dictatorship or democratic government. Moreover peaceful movements succeed twice ...
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
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Original Title: TIL the 3.5% rule: 3.5% of a national population peacefully protesting on the streets at once will ALWAYS topple a Dictatorship or democratic government. Moreover peaceful movements succeed twice as often as violent ones. This surprised even the Harvard political scientist who discovered it.
Decades, huh? :/ I mean yeah I'll certainly outlive Trump but I'd rather not wait on old age and heart disease to get him out of power
I can't find the text of their dissertation but this is a TedX talk they gave on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w