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Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences: Series Number 42: Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action
Navid Hassanpour
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Description for Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences: Series Number 42: Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action
hardcover. An analysis of the overlooked role of the peripheral vanguard in the context of a network theory of collective action. Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 430.
Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often, but when they do happen, they tend to be the least expected. Based on the paradigm of 'leading from the periphery', this groundbreaking analysis offers an explanation for such spontaneity and apparent lack of leadership in contentious collective action. Contrary to existing theories, the author argues that network effects in collective action originating from marginal leaders can benefit from a total lack of communication. Such network effects persist in isolated islands of contention instead of overarching action cascades, and are shown to escalate in globally dispersed, but ... Read more
Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often, but when they do happen, they tend to be the least expected. Based on the paradigm of 'leading from the periphery', this groundbreaking analysis offers an explanation for such spontaneity and apparent lack of leadership in contentious collective action. Contrary to existing theories, the author argues that network effects in collective action originating from marginal leaders can benefit from a total lack of communication. Such network effects persist in isolated islands of contention instead of overarching action cascades, and are shown to escalate in globally dispersed, but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107141193
SKU
V9781107141193
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99-14
About Navid Hassanpour
Navid Hassanpour is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He studies politics in hybrid regimes - collective action and elections under authoritarianism leading to social revolutions or stable electoral institutions. During the past two years he worked at Princeton University, New Jersey and Columbia University, New York, and his ongoing research ... Read more
Reviews for Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences: Series Number 42: Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action
'This important book adds to theories of collective action by describing conditions under which protests and rebellions actually spread following the disruption of centralized leadership and communication. The contagious spread of peripheral networks results in distributed collective action that becomes ever more difficult to contain. This subtle argument is illustrated with data from contemporary uprisings in Egypt and Syria, along ... Read more