Social Movements and Civil Participation

Due to the development of the Internet and social networks, social movements and civil participation are taking new forms: civil communities or “active publics,” “new social movements,” new media, analytical networks, and online communities. These forms are not accounted for in the classical theoretical frameworks.
In this project, we are developing and testing new theories and methodological approaches for researching these new, unconventional forms of civil participation.

Publications:

Kuskova V., Khvatsky Gregory, Zaytsev D., Talovsky N. Multilevel exponential random graph models application to civil participation studies Exponential Random Graph Models), in:  Proceedings of Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts – 9th International Conference, AIST 2019, Kazan, Russia, July 17-19, 2019, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2019.

Zaytsev D., Galina A., Sokol A. Cross-National Comparison of Protest Publics’ Roles as Drivers of Change: From Clusters to Models, in: Protest Publics. Toward a New Concept of Mass Civic Action  / Отв. ред.: N. Y. Belyaeva, D. Zaytsev, V. A. Albert. Switzerland : Springer, 2019. doi P. 157-182. doi

Shmaltsev Nikita Iosifovich, Zaytsev D. Protesters as the “Challengers of the Status Quo” in Embedded Democracies: The Cases of Iceland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in: Protest Publics. Toward a New Concept of Mass Civic Action  / Отв. ред.: N. Y. Belyaeva, D. Zaytsev, V. A. Albert. Switzerland : Springer, 2019. doi P. 183-201. doi

Zaytsev D. Brazilian Protests: Actors and Demands for Political Changes, in: Non-western social movements and participatory democracy: Protest in the age of transnationalism  / Ed. by E. Arbatli, D. Rosenberg. Switzerland : Springer, 2017. doi P. 43-64. doi

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