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David A. Snow is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology atthe University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as theCo-Director of the Center for Citizen's Peacebuilding. He is theauthor of The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Social Movements(with Sarah Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi, 2004), SocialMovements: Readings on Their Emergence, Mobilization, andDynamics (with Doug McAdam, 2009), and A Primer on SocialMovements (with Sarah Soule, 2010). Professor Snow was the 2008recipient of the Society for the Study of Social Problems' LeeFounders Award for career contributions to the study of socialproblems. Donatella della Porta lectures at the European UniversityInstitute, Florence, and directs the ERC project Mobilizingfor Democracy: Democratization processes and the mobilization ofcivil society . She is the co-author of SocialMovements: An Introduction (with Mario Diani, 2006);Europeanization and Social Movements (with Manuela Caiani,2009); and Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, andthe United States (with Manuela Caiani and Claudius Wagemann,2012); and editor of Democracy in Social Movements (2009); AnotherEurope (2009). In 2011, Professor della Porta was awardedthe Mattei Dogan Prize for political sociology. Bert Klandermans is Professor in Applied SocialPsychology at the VU University of Amsterdam. He is Director of theresearch program Social Conflict and Change. He is the editor andco-author of Methods of Social Movement Research (withSuzanne Staggenborg, 2002) and Extreme Right Activists inEurope (with Nonna Mayer, 2006). He also co-edited theHandbook of Social Movements across Disciplines (with ConnyRoggeband, 2007). In 2011/2012 he was President of theInternational Society of Political Psychology. In 2009 he receiveda Royal Award for his efforts to link science and society. Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology and Director of theProgram on Urban Studies at Stanford University. He is widelycredited as one of the pioneers of the political process model insocial movement analysis. His publications include PoliticalProcess and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970(1982), Freedom Summer (1988), Dynamics of Contention(with Sid Tarrow and Charles Tilly, 2001), and Putting SocialMovements in their Place: Explaining Opposition to Energy Projectsin the United States, 2000-2005 (with Hilary Boudet, 2012).
Overall this is a fine start for a work that encompassessuch a vast number of insights and so much analysis. Watching theexpansion of the knowledge base in future editions will beinteresting. Index at end of the third volume. Summing Up:Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates throughresearchers/faculty. (Choice, 1 July 2013) Political scientists, sociologists, as well as studentsin other academic disciplines should find this book of enormousvalue. (Library Journal, 1 April 2013)
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