Readership: Scholars and students of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Sociology
Edited by Mario Diani, Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy, and Doug McAdam, Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, and Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Introduction 1: Mario Diani: Social movements, contentious actions, and social networks: 'from metaphor to substance'? Part I. Individual networks 2: Florence Passy: Social Networks Matter. But How? 3: Helmut Anheier: Movement development and organizational networks: The role of 'single members' in the German Nazi party, 1925-1930 Part II. Interorganizational networks 4: Maryjane Osa: Networks in opposition: Linking organizations through activists in the Polish People's Republic 5: Mario Diani: 'Leaders' or brokers? Positions and influence in social movement networks 6: Christopher Ansell: Community embeddedness and collaborative governance in the San Francisco Bay Area environmental movement Part III. Networking the political process 7: Charles Tilly and Lesley J. Wood: Contentious connections in Great Britain, 1828-1834 8: Pamela Oliver and Daniel Myers: Networks, diffusion, and cycles of collective action 9: Jeffrey Broadbent: Movement in context: Thick networks and Japanese environmental protest Part IV. Theories of networks, movements, and collective action 10: Roger Gould: Why do networks matter? Rationalist and structuralist interpretations 11: Ann Mische: Cross-talk in movements: Reconceiving the culture-network link 12: Doug McAdam: Beyond structural analysis: toward a more dynamic understanding of social movements 13: Mario Diani: Networks and social movements: A research programme
