Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology in the University of Trento. His publications include Social Movements (with Donatella della Porta, 2006), Social Movements and Networks (co-edited with Doug McAdam, 2003) and Green Networks (1995). He served as the European editor of Mobilization from 1997-2005 and has served on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Contemporary Sociology (2006-8) and, currently, Interest Groups and Advocacy and Quaderni di Sociologia.
Introduction: of King Solomon, Goethe, and civic networks
1. Modes of coordination of collective action
2. The importance of local comparisons: civic organizations in British cities
3. Building civic networks: strategies of tie formation
4. The structural bases of civil society
5. Network positions and their incumbents
6. The duality of organizations and events
7. Network centrality and leadership
8. Civic networks and urban governance
9. 'Networking' contentious politics
Postfaction: bringing time and space(s) into the picture.
