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What's the point of street protest?

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What the Movement Is Trying to Show Is Worthiness, Unity, Numbers and Commitment

David Yanigazawa-Drot is a professor in the Economics Department of the University of Zurich. He says movements have always tried to stage these very public performances. Most research tends to claim that these specific types of demonstrations affect at least public opinion, but it's not straightforward to show this," he says.

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