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jessekuri🌐
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Politics, geopolitics, and macro hobbyist. Well at least on this platform.
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Do extreme protest tactics help climate movement? New study surveyed 8,001 French citizens for “effects of exposure to four protest actions with different degrees of extremity.” Found “relative to controls, extreme protest actions reduced support for the activist group…” osf.io/preprints/so...
Title page: Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Support for the Climate Movement and Climate Mitigation Policies Kylie Fuller1 , Romain Ferrali2 , Lucas Francou Damesin3 , Izzy Gainsburg4 , Brent Simpson5 , and Robb Willer4 1New York University 2Aix-Marseille University 3Parlons Climat 4Stanford University 5University of South Carolina Abstract In response to the escalating climate crisis, and with major climate policy reforms under debate across Europe, many environmental activists have turned to extreme protest tactics, such as vandalizing museums and obstructing major highways. Research suggests that extreme protest tactics - protest behaviors perceived to be highly disruptive, harmful to others, or both - may attract media attention, but typically reduce public support for protest groups (e.g., Feinberg et al., 2020). However, this research has focused primarily on Americans’ responses to public protest. Additionally, little experimental research has tested the causal effects of extreme tactics in the context of the climate movement, even though it is the largest social movement in the world (Hasegawa, 2022). To address these gaps, we fielded a large, pre-registered online survey experiment, conducted on a representative sample of French citizens (n = 8,001), testing the effects of exposure to four protest actions featuring different degrees of extremity - a peaceful march, occupying an office building, blocking public transportation, and damaging infrastructure. Results showed that, relative to a control condition, extreme protest actions reduced support for the activist group, willingness to join the climate movement, and support for climate mitigation policies (e.g., a carbon tax on fossil fuel companies), with these reductions increasing proportional to the extremity of the protest actions. Additionally, we found no evidence that exposure to these extreme tactics led to greater support for a more moderate climate protest group, offering evidence against the “radical flank effect” found in previous research (Simpson et al., 2022). Overall, results show that previously demonstrated negative effects of extreme protest tactics on popular support for social movements and their policy goals extends to activism on climate change, and also generalizes beyond the U.S. to the European context, a cri… Figure 1. All protest tactics (vs. the control condition) significantly reduced support for the focal group. The march, blockade, and sabotage vignettes (versus the control condition) significantly reduced policy support. None of the protest tactics impacted willingness to personally do more for climate change.
January 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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How did different racial/ethnic groups move over the course of the campaign?

Here is data from our two-wave NORC panel showing that Harris increased support over Biden among Black, Hispanic & white citizens between late winter & fall 2024.
November 18, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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10 Great Books on Trade and Globalisation (seems relevant)
1)The Globalisation Paradox- @drodrik.bsky.social
Great work on the nuances of globalisation. Recognizing its wide benefits, but also how tradeoffs: national self-determination, democracy and economic hyper globalisation conflict.
November 13, 2024 at 10:06 AM