Protest numbers data from Harvard's Crowd Counting Consortium (Ash Center) -- part of the Nonviolent Action Lab
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/crowdcountingconsortium/
#resist #protests #data #statistics #science #analysis #crowdsize #Harvard #HarvardUniversity #NonviolentActionLab
> .. "..in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone."..
https://meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-of-our-power-a-conversation-with-political-scientist-erica-chenoweth/
#EricaChenoweth via #RebeccaSolnit #NonviolentActionLab #uspol etc
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth

"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what

Meditations in an Emergency