Using recent advances in event history diffusion modeling, this article reexamines the
diffusion of racial rioting in the United States from 1964–71, uncovering several important …

Movements develop in coevolution with regimes and other actors in their environments.
Movement trajectories evolve through stochastic processes and are constrained, but not …

OBJECTIVES There are a number of very lucid, thorough, and authoritative reviews about
the nature and applications of theories and models of diffusion in sociology (see, for …

This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding social movements as
interrelated sets of diffusion processes. It first explains why such a conception is broadly …

If protest is going to spread from one individual to another, from one group to another, or
from one location to another, information about prior events must travel along these same …

This paper re-evaluates a classic deterministic model of collective violence diffusion and
demonstrates a series of shortcomings in it. In response, a new model, the opposing forces …

All over the world, different forms of urban food gardens (family gardens, school gardens,
community gardens, allotment gardens, and so on) are flourishing. These initiatives vary in …

The original goal of this paper was to review the nature and applications of theories and
models of diffusion in sociology. From the start it became evident, however, that the marginal …

El objetivo de este ariículo es reunir y revisar diferentes perspectivas teóricas que se
abocan a la comprensión sociológica del cambio politico desde una dimensión espacial Se …

In its focus on the relationships between civil society activity across the political spectrum,
communications and democratic change, Global Civil Society 2007/8 explores how activists …