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❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour! @rsenninger.bsky.social and I asked a simple, underexplored, question: when governments write policy documents, whose knowledge do they actually cite? 👉 rdcu.be/fhngy 🔓 seramirezruiz.github.io/papers/ramir... DOI: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

❓We study how demonstrative vs. confrontational protest forms shape public opinion in Germany, drawing on original protest event data and two survey experiments (Dec 2022 & Dec 2023). 3/7

🤯 But here's the twist: confrontational protest does NOT reduce support for climate policy. Policy preferences remain stable regardless of the protest form people are exposed to. Losing support for the protesters ≠ losing support for their goals. 5/7

✊How movements' choice of tactics shapes public opinion is a longstanding question in political behavior and social movement research. Recent confrontational climate activism, from road blockades to food attacks on art, gave new salience to this debate. 2/7 www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/w...

📊Confrontational protest significantly reduces public sympathy and support for the climate movement, especially among left-leaning and centrist citizens, who are closest to the movement ideologically. 4/7

🙏Thanks to our colleagues at the Center for Civil Society Research at @wzb.bsky.social & @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, the SOCIUM at @unibremen.bsky.social, and the Max Weber Programme at @eui-eu.bsky.social. The project received funding from @motra.bsky.social & @daadworldwide.bsky.social. 7/7

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