Social Movements and Networks

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