Questions, Answers, and Some C...

Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule
The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event. In this brief paper, author Erica Chenoweth addresses some of the common questions about the 3.5% rule, as well as several updates from more recent work on this topic.