Hi James, thanks for this and I feel like this research is super-helpful. As you know, we at Giving Green have also explored the question of protest (as a form of what we call “outsider legislative advocacy”), and are also generally bullish on these techniques. But also, (as you mention), I think only a small minority of protest movements are really successful. We’ve had a lot of trouble identifying organizations we want to recommend in the context of climate policy in the US.
We’re looking forward to applying your findings as our search continues!
Hi Dan—thanks for this! Definitely agree in that protest movements can be hits-based and most don’t do much but the best ones can be hugely influential. That’s definitely one of the hardest questions to resolve e.g. how do we predict which movements will fall into the latter bucket a priori, hence our work on identifying factors of successful movements. We’re planning on doing some more work on this in the next few months so will keep you posted and definitely hope it’s helpful to Giving Green!
Hi James, thanks for this and I feel like this research is super-helpful. As you know, we at Giving Green have also explored the question of protest (as a form of what we call “outsider legislative advocacy”), and are also generally bullish on these techniques. But also, (as you mention), I think only a small minority of protest movements are really successful. We’ve had a lot of trouble identifying organizations we want to recommend in the context of climate policy in the US.
We’re looking forward to applying your findings as our search continues!
Hi Dan—thanks for this! Definitely agree in that protest movements can be hits-based and most don’t do much but the best ones can be hugely influential. That’s definitely one of the hardest questions to resolve e.g. how do we predict which movements will fall into the latter bucket a priori, hence our work on identifying factors of successful movements. We’re planning on doing some more work on this in the next few months so will keep you posted and definitely hope it’s helpful to Giving Green!