Why Protest Matters-Meet Erica Chenoweth

Meet Erica Chenoweth, Political Scientist and author of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. Prof. Chenoweth’s research is the basis of the “3.5% rule.”

America is facing an unprecedented authoritarian threat. What can we learn from the experiences of other movements around the world that have faced this threat? Prof. Chenoweth researches nonviolent anti-authoritarian movements around the world to discover how and why they succeed or fail. This research is the basis for the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilizing against it during a peak event (the “3.5% rule”). Among the topics Prof Chenoweth will discuss are:What is the role of protests in countering authoritarianism?Are protests enough?What are the stages of a resistance movement?What is the relationship of civil resistance to electoral politics? Chenoweth’s research has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs,The Economist, and The Boston Globe, among others.

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