Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in nonviolent
resistance—a method of conflict in which unarmed people mobilize collective protests …

Property will cost us the earth The science on climate change has been clear for a very long
time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and …

Around the world, people engage in social protests aimed at addressing major societal
problems. Certain protests have led to significant progress, yet other protests have resulted …

A swee** overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they
are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a …

One important aspect of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong
is a high degree of solidarity between the movement's moderate and radical flanks. The …

How do state and protester violence affect whether protests grow or shrink? Previous
research finds conflicting results for how violence affects protest dynamics. This article …

A growing literature finds that nonviolence is more successful than violence in effecting
political change. We suggest that a focus on this association is incomplete, because it …

This study examines how protesters' gender shapes public reactions to protests and protest
repression. Using an original survey experiment, I demonstrate that protests involving …

A cutting-edge appraisal of revolution and its future. On Revolutions, co-authored by six
prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first …

An emerging consensus holds that nonviolent resistance campaigns are more successful
than violent campaigns, partly because they attract more participants. Yet, we lack an …