Distinctive from the effects of grassroots elections on police trust, rightful resistance tends to produce complaints against the police.
And one can certainly point to the tea party as a group that demonstrated the tidal effect of a grassroots revolution.
The fortunes of the men's team, of course, are a little more complicated, and the effect of the investment on "grassroots cricket", to use a favourite phrase of Collier's, is altogether harder to gauge.
Rather than the far-left figure that Gingrich and others would paint him, Alinsky appears in his writings – including Rules for Radicals, published in 1971 – to be more concerned with the nuts and bolts of grassroots organisation in effecting change.
Nevertheless, the strength of grassroots members and the effect of organising against those councillors is visible.
It is not that simplistic to claim that the stricter the oversight of grassroots governments, the better the effects of policy implementation will be.
Confirmation of this effect should come next Thursday when Sport England produces its next set of grassroots participation figures.
Not, perhaps, a striking example of grassroots democracy.
They democratize science and initiate a type of grassroots "science diplomacy", supporting research in developing countries.
The early part of the twentieth century saw a revival of grassroots Christianity.
