Andrea Jones-Rooy
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And am I likely to get thrown into jail?
And the more of us that hit the streets, the fewer of us, you know, the higher the chances are that I can protest without they can't put all of us in jail.
Right.
And so social scientists have been studying protests.
Why do we see protests?
Why do we not see protests in all kinds of different areas and mostly focused on those particular things?
Like, why would an individual participate in a protest?
Like, if I'm sitting at home, I see the BLM protests after, you know, George Floyd, or I see these other protests, what makes me individually join it?
It turns out one of the biggest predictors there is whether I've been in a protest in the past.
So it's your...
Whatever your gateway protest was, it makes you more likely to participate in future protests.
And then the collective action problem is, is there some big thing that's happening that signals to everyone that this is the moment and we can get over the coordination problem of, you know, not running the risk of hitting... I hit Union Square and I'm the only person in there and the police cart me away, right?
And so the George Floyd summer...
is a classic example of this, where this big event took place, everyone in the United States observed this event, and then it was very clear, like, okay, we're going to take action, and that moment is now, which is why we saw it at that particular moment.
This paper, so I'm getting to eclipses, because this paper says, what about a third possibility, or all three could take place, but what about a third possibility, and this is a possibility that tends to live more in kind of like cultural and humanities research, which says that
Some cultures or countries or places have a history or a culture of protest.
And I'm not an expert on this, but just anecdotally, France comes to mind for me.
I feel like if there's something going on in the country that people disagree with, protests seem like a first reaction as opposed to, oh, letters to the editor or petitions or elections or whatever.
And I lived in Bolivia for a little while, and I felt like every other day there was a protest about something.
So some countries, some cultures have a stronger inclination to use protests as a tool than other countries, even if you hold constant their level of grievance or inequality or probability of getting thrown into jail.
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