A systematic, authoritative, and accessible introduction to empirical research in social movement studies. Each of the main methods of data collection and data analysis are presented with a practical approach, from research design to data collection, the use of information through to ethical issues.

Donatella Della Porta is Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and professor of political science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (on leave of absence). At the EUI, she has launched COSMOS (Consortium on Social Movement Studies). She is now starting a major ERC project Mobilizing for Democracy, on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. She is co-editor of the European Political Science Reviews (ECPR-Cambridge University Press). In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology. Her main fields of research are social movements, the policing of public order, participatory democracy and political corruption.

• 1: Donatella della Porta: Social Movement Studies and Methodological Pluralism: An Introduction


• 2: Alice Mattoni: The Potentials of Grounded Theory in the Study of Social Movements


• 3: Claudius Wagemann: Qualitative Comparative Analysis: What It Is, What It Does, and How It Works


• 4: Phillip M. Ayoub, Sophia Wallace, and Chris Zepeda-Millán: Triangulation in Social Movement Research


• 5: Daniel Ritter: Comparative Historical Analysis


• 6: Lorenzo Bosi and Herbert Reiter: Historical Methodologies in Social Movement Research:. Historical Methodologies in Social Movement Research: Archival Research and Oral History


• 7: Philip Balsiger and Alexandre Lambelet: Participant Observation


• 8: Stefan Malthaner: Field Work in the Context of Violent Conflict and Authoritarian Regimes


• 9: Lasse Lindekilde: Discourse and Frame Analysis:In-Depth Analysis of Qualitative Data in Social Movement Research


• 10: Donatella della Porta: In-depth Interviews


• 11: Donatella della Porta: Life Histories


• 12: Donatella della Porta: Focus Groups


• 13: Massimiliano Andretta and Donatella della Porta: Surveying Protestors: Why and How


• 14: Swen Hutter: Protest Event Analysis and Its Offspring


• 15: Manuela Caiani: Social Network Analysis


• 16: Lorenzo Mosca: Methodological Practices in Social Movement Online Research


• 17: Nicole Doerr and Noa Milman: Working with Images


• 18: Stefania Milan: The Ethics of Social Movement Research