Research

Professor Sidney Tarrow's areas of interest include comparative politics, social movements, political parties, collective action, and political sociology. His 1990 monograph, Democracy and Disorder (Oxford), received the Best Book in Collective Action and Social Movements award from the American Sociological Association. His major book is Power in Movement (Cambridge 1998). In the past five years, Professor Tarrow has co-authored or edited four other books and monographs, including The Social Movement Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998; edited with D. Meyer), Contentious Europeans (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998; with D. Imig), Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge, 2001; with D. McAdam and C. Tilly), and Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (Cambridge, 2001; with R. Amizade et al), and numerous articles in sociological and political science journals.

Selected Publications

Peasant Communism in Southern Italy, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1967; (revised and translated as Partito comunista e contadini nel Mezzogiorno, Turin: Giulio Einaudi, ed., 1972.

Between Center and Periphery: Grassroots Politicians in Italy and France, Yale University Press, 1977; (translated as Tra centro e periferia, Il Mulino, 1979.)

Democracy and Disorder, Oxford University Press, 1989 (revised and translated as Democrazia e disordine, Laterza, 1990).

Power in Movement: Collective Action, Social Movements and Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1994. (Spanish trans.: El Poder en Movimiento, Alianza, 1998; revised as Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1998).

(with Bert Klandermans and Hanspeter Kriesi, eds.) From Structure to Action: Comparing Social Movement Research Across Cultures, International Social Movement Research I, (JAI Press, 1988).

(with Doug Imig) Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in a Europeanizing Polity. Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

(with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly) Dynamics of Contention. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

(with Ron Aminzade, et al) Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics. Cambridge U. Press, 2001.