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Whether or not they impact election results in the way we expect, protests and their larger movements will carry weight on November 5.

Whether or not they impact election results in the way we expect, protests and their larger movements will carry weight on November 5.

Dr. Manski writes that social science research shows, "The mobilized tend to stay mobilized, they tend to mobilize others, and their actions may reframe what the elections are about. Indeed, longstanding research shows us that the kind of alienation expressed in protest more often leads not to disengagement, but to greater immediate and long-term political involvement."

Manski discusses Palestine protests in Chile's El Mercurio

Manski discusses Palestine protests in Chile's El Mercurio

GM Sociology's Dr. Manski told El Mercurio, Chile's major daily, that the current Palestine "protest wave has much more in common with the student divestment campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s," than with the protests of the 1960s.