Chapter 3 presents the results from a survey of local, state, and national elected officials and their staffers. Gause created the survey to empower the people who determine whether collective action demands influence legislative behavior to describe their views on collective action. Notably, the survey responses provide insights into several conditions that must be present for the book’s argument to be accurate. First, legislators must be aware of collective action. If not, then collective action cannot reasonably influence legislative behavior. Second, legislators must believe protest has value for their legislative behavior. Otherwise, legislators will simply ignore the collective action they observe. Third, (any) collective action must influence legislative behavior. Fourth, legislators must be strategic actors who respond to some collective action events more than others. Finally, legislators must observe and act upon differences in protest costs. The survey responses provide meaning, context, and understanding to the book’s central claim. They suggest that the people who determine legislative behavior think they act in ways that align with the theoretical argument.