Social movements and networks : relational approaches to collective action / edited by Mario Diani and Doug McAdam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diani, Mario, 1957-

McAdam, Doug.

Series:

Comparative politics (Oxford, England)

Comparative politics.

Comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Congresses.

Social movements.

Social networks--Congresses.

Social networks.

Collective behavior--Congresses.

Collective behavior.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xix, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, International University Bremen, Bremen, and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics at University of Southampton. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. Analysts of contentious politics have long recognized in social networks an important predictor of individual recruitment and sustained participation. Likewise, few would dispute that social movements cannot be reduced to any specific actor, but are better conceived as webs of exchanges between groups and organizations who engage in coalition work while preserving their autonomy and specificity. The extent to which a network approach should inform research on social movements and collective action is, however, subject to debate. Should the application of network ideas be limited to specific dynamics such as individual participation, or inter-organizational alliances? Or should we take the network as the guiding principle to reorganize our overall understanding of grassroots, contentious politics? Social Movements and Networks addresses these and many related issues. 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. They also assess the role of networks in the light of broader theoretical perspectives. By clarifying the strengths and implications of relational approaches to collective action, Social Movements and Networks casts new light on our understanding of social movements and cognate social and political processes.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Social Movements, Contentious Actions, and Social Networks: 'From Metaphor to Substance'? / Mario Diani 1

I. Individual Networks

2. Social Networks Matter. But How? / Florence Passy 21

3. Movement Development and Organizational Networks: The Role of 'Single Members' in the German Nazi Party, 1925-30 / Helmut Anheier 49

II. Interorganizational Networks

4. Networks in Opposition: Linking Organizations Through Activists in the Polish People's Republic / Maryjane Osa 77

5. 'Leaders' or Brokers? Positions and Influence in Social Movement Networks / Mario Diani 105

6. Community Embeddedness and Collaborative Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Movement / Christopher Ansell 123

III. Networking the Political Process

7. Contentious Connections in Great Britain, 1828-34 / Charles Tilly, Lesley J. Wood 147

8. Networks, Diffusion, and Cycles of Collective Action / Pamela E. Oliver, Daniel J. Myers 173

9. Movement in Context: Thick Networks and Japanese Environmental Protest / Jeffrey Broadbent 204

IV. Theories of Networks, Movements, and Collective Action

10. Why do Networks Matter? Rationalist and Structuralist Interpretations / Roger V. Gould 233

11. Cross-talk in Movements: Reconceiving the Culture-Network Link / Ann Mische 258

12. Beyond Structural Analysis: Toward a More Dynamic Understanding of Social Movements / Doug McAdam 281

13. Networks and Social Movements: A Research Programme / Mario Diani 299.

Notes:

Selected papers presented at a June 24-26, 2000 meeting of American and European scholars at Ross Priory on the banks of Loch Lomond.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [320]-346) and index.

ISBN:

0199251770

0199251789

OCLC:

50323158