Social Movements and Networks Relational Approaches to Collective Action [Paperback]

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 Networkscasts new light on our understanding of social movements and cognate social and political processes.

Introduction
1. Social movements, contentious actions, and social networks: 'from metaphor to substance'?,Mario Diani
Part I. Individual networks
2. Social Networks Matter. But How?,Florence Passy
3. Movement development and organizational networks: The role of 'single members' in the German Nazi party, 1925-1930,Helmut Anheier
Part II. Interorganizational networks
4. Networks in opposition: Linking organizations through activists in the Polish People's Republic,Maryjane Osa
5. 'Leaders' or brokers? Positions and influence in social movement networks,Mario Diani
6. Community embeddedness and collaborative governance in the San Francisco Bay Area environmental movement,Christopher Ansell
Part III. Networking the political process
7. Contentious connections in Great Britain, 1828-1834,Charles Tilly and Lesley J. Wood
8. Networks, diffusion, and cycles of collective action,Pamela Oliver and Daniel Myers
9. Movement in context: Thick networks and Japanese environmental protest,