Street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is the resistance?\u201d is a common refrain. Our research affirms that resistance<\/a> is alive<\/a> and well<\/a>.<\/p>\n Many underestimate resistance to the current Republican administration because they view resistance through a narrow lens. The 2017 Women\u2019s March<\/a> in particular \u2013 immediate in its response, massive in its scope and size \u2013 may inform collective imaginations about what the beginning of a resistance movement should look like during Trump 2.0.<\/p>\n Erica Chenoweth is a political scientist at Harvard Kennedy School and co-director of the Crowd Counting Consortium. Chenoweth is the author of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know and co-author of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.<\/p>\n Jeremy Pressman is a professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and co-director of the Crowd Counting Consortium. His most recent book is The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force.<\/p>\n Soha Hammam is a postdoctoral research associate at Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Nonviolent Action Lab, where she researches political mobilization and law enforcement responses across the US. She was previously a democracy visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a peace scholar fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest \u201cWhere is the resistance?\u201d is a common refrain. Our research affirms that resistance is alive and well. Many underestimate resistance to the current Republican administration because they view resistance through a narrow lens. The 2017 Women\u2019s March in particular \u2013 immediate in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}