Networks of Collective Action: A Perspective on Community Influence Systems develops a theoretically informed research framework for the structural analysis of

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

Rejecting the dichotomy of centralism and horizontalism that has deeply marked millennial politics, Rodrigo Nunes' close analysis of network systems demonstrate

Social Movements and Networks examines the extent to which a network approach should inform research on collective action. For the first time in a single volume

The problem of collective action is that each group member wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits o