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5. There it is--the magic 3.5%!

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 15, 2025, 01:44 AM

Jun 15

https://thinkbynumbers.org/politics/it-takes-3-5-of-the-population-to-change-the-world/]

Research by Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth has shown that movements which actively engage just 3.5% of the population rarely fail to bring about change. This finding comes from studying hundreds of campaigns across the last century.

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