Network Collective Action

David Knoke is a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, where heteaches courses in social networks, organizations, healthcare systems, terrorism, socialscience fiction, and statistics. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in1972 and was professor of sociology at Indiana University from 1972 to 1985. Knokewas a Fulbright research scholar at Kiel University in Germany (1989) and a fellow atthe Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1992). In 1996-99 he wasnamed a University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Scholar of the College. In 2008,he received the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts’ Arthur “Red” MotleyExemplary Teaching Award. With various colleagues, David Knoke received severalNational Science Foundation research grants and published the results in researchmonographs on political, organizational, and social network behavior. Some of thesebooks are The Organizational State, Organizing for Collective Action, Political Networks,Organizations in America, Comparing Policy Networks, Changing Organizations, Social Network Analysis, Economic Networks, and Multimodal Political Networks. His current research investigates diverse social networks, including intra- and interorganizational, healthcare, economic, financial, terrorist and counterterror networks.

• Chapter 1. Theories of Collective Action.- Chapter 2. Agent-Based Models of Collective Action.- Chapter 3. Contagious Social Networks.- Chapter 4. Social Movement Networks.- Chapter 5. Insurgent Networks.- Chapter 6. Economic Networks and Global Warming.- Chapter 7. Looking Forward.