I am genuinely interested in reading about effective and clearly effective protests led by anyone currently doing protests, or within the last 10 years. Even if on a small scale.
“Protest movements could be more effective than the best charities”—SSIR
About two weeks ago, I published an article in Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), a magazine for those interested in philanthropy, social science and non-profits. … Although my article is reasonably brief (and I obviously recommend reading it in full!) here’s a quick summary of what I spoke about, plus some nuances I forgot or wasn’t able to add:
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There is a reasonable amount of evidence that shows that protest movement can have significant impacts, across a variety of outcomes from policy, public opinion, public discourse, voting behaviour, and corporate behaviour. I’ll leave this point to be explained in greater detail in our summary of our literature review on protest outcomes!
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3. A summary of Social Change Lab’s literature reviews, who we are, and our next steps
We’ve recently conducted two literature reviews, looking over 60+ academic studies across political science, sociology and economics, to tackle some key questions around protest movements. Specifically, we had two main questions:
What are the outcomes of protest and protest movements? - Literature Review
What factors make some protest movements more likely to succeed relative to others? - Literature Review
(Would be interested in someone going through this paper and writing a post or comment highlighting some examples and why they’re considered successful.)
Caveat that I don’t know much more than this, but I’m reminded of James Ozden’s lit reviews, e.g. How effective are protests? Some research and some nuance. Ostensibly relevant bits:
(Would be interested in someone going through this paper and writing a post or comment highlighting some examples and why they’re considered successful.)