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In the first episode of a new web series from Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Erica Chenoweth and Steve Levitsky examine key developments facing our democracy.
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

In democracies, major policy decisions typically require some form of majority or consensus, so elites must secure mass support to govern. Historically, elites could shape support only through limited instruments like schooling and mass media; advances in




