Kenneth A. Loparo 
Democracy in Social Movements [PDF ebook] 

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Organizational Structures and Visions of Democracy in the Global Justice Movement: An Introduction; D.della Porta Global Justice Movement Organizations: The Organizational Population; D.della Porta Participatory Traditions within the Global Justice Movement; H.Reiter Consensus in Movements; D.della Porta Social Movements and Multilevel Governance: The External Dimension of Democracy; D.della Porta Why Are Social Movement Organizations Deliberative? Structural and Cultural Determinants of Internal Decision Making in the Global Justice Movement; M.Giugni & A.Nai Organizational Size and Democratic Practices: Can Large Be Beautiful?; C.Saunders Forms of Action of Global Justice Movement Groups: Do Conceptions and Practices of Democracy Matter?; D.Rucht & S.Teune Unconventional Politics Online: Internet and the Global Justice Movement; L.Mosca & D.della Porta The Generational Issue: The Impact of Organizations’ Age on Visions of Democracy; H.Combes, N.Haeringer & I.Sommier Crossing Borders: Transnational Activism in European Social Movements; M.Pianta, R.Marchetti & D.Zola Democracy in Movement: Some Conclusions; D.della Porta References Index

HÉLÈNE COMBES is CNRS Research Fellow with the Centre de recherches politiques de la Sorbonne, Paris 1 University, France DONATELLA DELLA PORTA is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Italy MARCO GIUGNI is Researcher at the Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (resop) and teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland NICOLAS HAERINGER is a doctoral researcher at the CERSO (Centre d’étude et de recherche en sociologie des organisations), Université Paris-Dauphine, France RAFFAELE MARCHETTI is Lecturer on International Relations at LUISS University and John Cabot University, Italy LORENZO MOSCA is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute and is currently a research fellow at the Bocconi University (Milan), Italy ALESSANDRO NAI works as a teaching and research assistant in Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland MARIO PIANTA is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Urbino, Italy HERBERT REITER is Researcher at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy DIETER RUCHT is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the research group ‘Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilization in Europe’ at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany CLARE SAUNDERS is Lecturer and RCUK Fellow in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton, UK ISABELLE SOMMIER is Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris, France SIMON TEUNE works at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany DUCCIO ZOLA is currently a Ph D student in philosophy at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy