You Are Not So Smart
336 - The 3.5 Percent Rule - Erica Chenoweth (rebroadcast)
March 30, 20261h 3m · 10,311 words
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If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can change the national status quo, you don't need half the country, you only need 3.5 percent of the population to join – but there are some caveats, and Erica Chenoweth whose research led to the discovery of the 3.5 Percent Rule, explains them to us in this episode.
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it's a descriptive number that is assigned to a historical database where people weren't self-consciously trying to organize three and a half percent of the population, right?
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