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.

• 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

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.