First of all, what is failure? If you compare what many social-democratic parties were able to get to what they talked about when they were founded, I assume they have failed. But if you consider the growth of welfare states, they might have succeeded (though causality is hard to attribute). And if you consider that they as parties have often been in power, they might have succeeded. Social movements, including parties, drastically change when they get closer to power. They lose members, gain new ones, change their platform and their criteria for success.
Secondly, what is the population of social movements from which we want to have examples? Consider Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation started the Arab Spring. I assume there were and are many politically-caused suicides who cause nothing like that. You could see each one of them as a social movement that failed.
Thirdly, the observation problem. I guess for every J. K. Rowling, there are thousands of manuscripts not even accepted by publishers. But it would be hard to list even one of them except if you wrote them yourself.
Aside from self-published books, there are also series which got published up to a point, but the publishers didn’t accept the next book in the series. (And no, I did not write either of these.)
I’ve read a lot of books, and it’s the only example I was able to come up with. I’m not aware of a lot unfinished series actually, just a) a few series which might not have an ending, and b) a handful of series I never finished.
First of all, what is failure? If you compare what many social-democratic parties were able to get to what they talked about when they were founded, I assume they have failed. But if you consider the growth of welfare states, they might have succeeded (though causality is hard to attribute). And if you consider that they as parties have often been in power, they might have succeeded. Social movements, including parties, drastically change when they get closer to power. They lose members, gain new ones, change their platform and their criteria for success.
Secondly, what is the population of social movements from which we want to have examples? Consider Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation started the Arab Spring. I assume there were and are many politically-caused suicides who cause nothing like that. You could see each one of them as a social movement that failed.
Thirdly, the observation problem. I guess for every J. K. Rowling, there are thousands of manuscripts not even accepted by publishers. But it would be hard to list even one of them except if you wrote them yourself.
Aside from self-published books, there are also series which got published up to a point, but the publishers didn’t accept the next book in the series. (And no, I did not write either of these.)
Always good to see data on such things, data which I neglected. That at least reduces the survivorship bias of observation.
I’ve read a lot of books, and it’s the only example I was able to come up with. I’m not aware of a lot unfinished series actually, just a) a few series which might not have an ending, and b) a handful of series I never finished.