This emphasis examines the role of social movements as a new form of collective action and political expression in established democracies and developing nations.
CONVENORS: David Meyer, David Snow
FACULTY
Edwin Amenta
Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine 
Russell Dalton
Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
Martha Feldman
Professor, Social Ecology, UC Irvine
David Frank
Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Claire Kim
Associate Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
David S. Meyer
Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Francesca Polletta
Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Belinda Robnett-Olsen
Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Evan Schofer
Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
David Snow
Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Judith Stepan-Norris
Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Yang Su
Assistant Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Carole Uhlaner
Associate Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL AFFILIATES
Mario Diani
University of Trento, Italy
Shizheng Feng
Renmin University, China
P.G. Klandermans
Vrije University, Amsterdam
Mayer Zald
University of Michigan
ILLUSTRATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
Local Resistance and the State in Reformed China
Social Movement Sequences
African Americans, Identity and Political Participation in the Post-1960s Era
Demonstrations in the Vietnamese-American Community
Comparative Social Movements
CONFERENCES
Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy
Democracy, Violence, and Cities: New Segregations and Changes in Public Space
Greening X: Environmental Politics and Policy
PUBLISHED BOOKS
Beyond Regression in Social Sciences: The Need for Predicitve Models (Oxford Press, 2008)
Edwin Amenta. Professer Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball
Diamonds of Central Park (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
David S. Meyer, Politics of Protests: Social Movements in America (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2007)
Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, eds. Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) 992 pp.
David Snow, J. Lofland, L. Anderson, and L. Lofland, Analyzing Social Settings: A
Guide to Qualitative Observations and Analysis (Wadsworth Publishing, 2006)
David Snow et al. eds. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. (Blackwell, 2003).
David Meyer, Nancy Whittier, and Belinda Robnett, editors. Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State. (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Russell Dalton, Paula Garb, Nicholas Lovrich, John Pierce, and John Whiteley, Critical Masses: Citizen's, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction
in the United States and Russia. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1999).
RECENT RESEARCH PAPERS
Russell J. Dalton, Doh C. Shin and Willy Jou, Popular Conceptions of the Meaning
of Democracy: Democratic Understanding in Unlikely Places (CSD-07-03)
Thomas Bernstein, Unrest in Rural China: A 2003 Assessment (CSD04-13)
Nhu-Ngoc Ong and David Meyer, Protest and Political Incorporation: Vietnamese American Protests, 1975-2001 (CSD04-08)
Yang Su, State Sponsorship or State Failure? Mass Killings in Rural China, 1967-68 (CSD03-06)
David Meyer, Social Movements and Public Policy: Eggs, Chicken, and Theory (CSD03-02)
Louis Desipio, Immigrant Organizing, Civic Outcomes: Civic Engagement, Political Activity, National
Attachment, and Identity in Latino Immigrant Communities (CSD02-08)
Ken'ichi Ikeda, Social Capital and Social Communication in Japan: Political Participation and Tolerance (CSD02-06)
David Snow, Collective Identity and Expressive Forms (CSD01-07)