Tipping Point

Upon concluding the Decision Calculus of Protesters and Regimes reading I felt compelled to write this blog upon tipping points. The reading points out that tipping points are reached upon the decreased threshold to protest and can be brought about through many ways. Primarily it is the social groups with lower tipping points that push the percentage of participation toward the higher social groups. This can be viewed in the form of dissidents influencing students, students influencing workers, workers influencing party supporter and so on. The processs resembles a snowball effect but can be viewed in many different ways. One way shows us that an initial interest in the activity may be slim, but until another factor such as police brutality comes into play the threshold may not waver. This outlines the point that although the primary basis for protest may be for the overturning of regime type, an outside factor may hold just as great importance toward the increasing numbers.