Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action

by Mario Diani, Doug McAdam

Overview

For the first time in a single volume, leading social movement researchers map the full range of applications of network concepts and tools to their field of inquiry. They illustrate how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations; how patterns of inter-organizational linkages affect the circulation of resources both within movement milieus and between movement organizations and the political system; how network concepts and techniques may improve our grasp of the relationship between movements and elites, of the configuration of alliance and conflict structures, of the clustering of episodes of contention in protest cycles.Social Movements and Networks casts new light on our understanding of social movements and cognate social and political processes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199251780
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/10/2003
Series:	Comparative Politics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	9.08(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy, and the European Editor of Mobilization. Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, and Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Social movements, contentious actions, and social networks: 'from metaphor to substance'?, Mario DianiPart I. Individual networks2. Social Networks Matter. But How?, Florence Passy3. Movement development and organizational networks: The role of 'single members' in the German Nazi party, 1925-1930, Helmut AnheierPart II. Interorganizational networks4. Networks in opposition: Linking organizations through activists in the Polish People's Republic, Maryjane Osa5. 'Leaders' or brokers? Positions and influence in social movement networks, Mario Diani6. Community embeddedness and collaborative governance in the San Francisco Bay Area environmental movement, Christopher AnsellPart III. Networking the political process7. Contentious connections in Great Britain, 1828-1834, Charles Tilly and Lesley J. Wood8. Networks, diffusion, and cycles of collective action, Pamela Oliver and Daniel Myers9. Movement in context: Thick networks and Japanese environmental protest, Jeffrey BroadbentPart IV. Theories of networks, movements, and collective action10. Why do networks matter? Rationalist and structuralist interpretations, Roger Gould11. Cross-talk in movements: Reconceiving the culture-network link, Ann Mische12. Beyond structural analysis: toward a more dynamic understanding of social movements, Doug McAdam13. Networks and social movements: A research programme, Mario Diani