BCAD faculty affiliate Omar Wasow’s research on protest movements was featured in The New York Times

Omar Wasow was quoted in The New York Times:

Protests, like many forms of group behavior, can be contagious. One way to understand how protest movements spread is the “ovation model,” said Omar Wasow, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies how protest movements can affect politics…

“The conflict there then contributes to this great cascade, to other campuses joining in, and other media around the country and around the world paying attention,” Wasow said.

The full article is available here.

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