Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action

ISBN-13: 9781316506455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 228 str.

Navid Hassanpour

Opis

An analysis of the overlooked role of the peripheral vanguard in the context of a network theory of collective action.

Recenzje

'… the book is an important, novel, and valuable contribution to the study of social movements, and constitutes a blueprint for how one can conduct research on relevant historical processes interweaving useful insights from extensive data collection, formal modeling, and experiments.' Delia Baldassarri, American Journal of Sociology

Spis treści

1. Mobilization from the margins; 2. Decentralization of revolutionary unrest: dispersion hypothesis; 3. Vanguards at the periphery, a network formulation; 4. Civil war and contagion in small worlds; 5. Peripheral influence, experimentations in collective risk taking; 6. Decentralization and power, novel modes of social organization; Appendix.