Mobilizing for Democracy compares two waves of protests for democracy, in Central Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011.

• 1: Democratization and social movements


• 2: Eventful democratization: when protest changes structures


• 3: Mobilizing resources for democracy


• 4: Framing democracy: The cognitive dimension of mobilization


• 5: Repression and challengers


• 6: Appropriation of opportunities


• 7: Participated pacts and social movements


• 8: Violent uprisings, troubled democratization


• 9: In the name of the nation: nationalism as opportunity and risk


• 10: Democratization from below: some conclusions

Donatella della Porta has launched COSMOS (Consortium on Social Movement Studies) at the EUI. 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. She is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute and Professor of Political Science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane.