Networks
Tarrow, Sidney G.
Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government
Positions
- Prof Emeritus, Cornell Law School, Cornell University
Websites
- Affiliations
- Research
- Publications
- Teaching
- Service
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Affiliations
other Cornell affiliations
Research
research overview
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- Italian Communism (his first book was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967)
- Comparative Communism
- Communism in Italy and France (Princeton 1972, ed., with Donald L.M. Blackmer)
- Comparative Local Politics (Between Center and Periphery, Yale 1978),
- Quantitative and Qualitative Reconstruction of Italian Protest Cycle of the Late 1960's and Early 1970's (Democracy and Disorder (Oxford, 1989))
principal investigator on
geographic focus
Publications
selected publications listing
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- 2005. The New Transnational Activism. Cambridge University Press.
- 2001. (with Doug Imig, eds.) Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in Europeanizing Polity. Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.
- 2001. (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly) Dynamics of Contention. Cambridge University Press. (trans. Dinamica de la contienda politica. Madrid: Hacer Editorial, 2005).
- 2001. (with Ron Aminzade, et al.) Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics. Cambridge University Press.
- 2005. (with Donatella della Porta, eds.). Transnational Protest and Global Activism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- 2006 (with Charles Tilly). Contentious Politics. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers (trans: Politica conflittuale. Milan: Mondadori, 2007).
- He is currently completing a book with Charles Tilly called Contentious Politics (Paradigm 2006). Recent work that can be viewed through this website are: "Contention and Institutions in International Politics" (2001), "The Dualities of Transnational Contention" (2005), "Rooted Cosmopolitans," (2005), all three of which draw from his New Transnational Activism, and "Identity Work" from Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics (2006). Tarrow tries to justify the many twists and turns in his career in "Confessions of a Recovering Structuralist" (2006), and has recently bolstered his flagging energies by co-authoring articles with Tsveta Petrova ("Transactional and Participatory Activism", 2007) and Jennifer Hadden ("When Barking Dogs Whimper: What Happened to the American Global Justice Movement After Seattle," in press).
Teaching
teaching overview
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- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Politics and Society in Western Europe
- Politics and Collective Action in Modern Europe
- Comparative Revolutions
- Field Seminar in Comparative Politics
- Politics and Society in Western Europe
- Contentious Politics and Social Movements
- Workshop on Transnational Contention
teaching activities
- GOVT-4999: Undergraduate Independent Study - Spring 2013
- GOVT-7999: Independent Study - Spring 2013
- GOVT-4999: Undergraduate Independent Study - Fall 2012
- GOVT-7999: Independent Study - Fall 2012
- GOVT-4999: Undergraduate Independent Study - Spring 2012
- GOVT-7999: Independent Study - Spring 2012
- GOVT-4999: Undergraduate Independent Study - Fall 2011
- GOVT-7999: Independent Study - Fall 2011
- LAW-7132: Constitutional Law and Theory Colloquium - Fall 2011
Service
current professional activities
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Cornell University Service
- 1972 Member, Government Department Development Committee
- 1972 - 1973 Chairman, European Studies Committee for International Studies
- 1973 - 1975 Founder and Director, Western Societies Program
- 1973 - 1976 Member, University Library Board
- 1981 - 1985 Member, Western Societies Program Executive Committee
- 1983 - 1984 Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Steering Committee
- 1984 - 1985 Member, Government Department Graduate Committee
- 1986 - 1987 Chair, Government Department Academic Priorities Committee
- 1986 - 1988 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Dean' Advisory Committee of Science and Technology
- 1986 - 1990 Member, Hull Fund, Publication Committee
- 1986 - 1991 Member, Luigi Einaudi Chair, Steering Committee
- 1988 - 1989 Member, Provostʹs Task Force on the Social Implications of Science And Technology
- 1989 - 1990 Co-Chair, Government Department Search Committee
- 1989 - 1991 Member, Executive Committee, Program on Soviet and East European Studies
- 1990 - 1992 Chair, Government Department Computer Committee
- 1990 - 1993 Director, Government Department Placement Committee
- 1992 - 1994 Chair, Luigi Einaudi Chair Executive Committee
- 1997 - 1998 Member, Government Department Undergraduate Committee
- 1998 - 1999 Chair, Government Department Search Committee
- 2001 - 2002 Member, Cornell Interdisciplinary Social Science Committee
- 2002 - 2003 Co-Chair, Government Department Search Committee
- 2002 - 2005 Director, Program for the Study of Contentious Politics
- 2004 - 2005 Member, Social Science Advisory Committee
- 2004 - 2006 Chair, Government Department Search Committee
- 2005 - 2007 Member, Social Science Internal Advisory Committee
- 2006 - 2008 Member, Institute for the Social Sciences, Theme Project on Contentious Politics
Consultancies
- 1990 German Marshall Fund of the United States
- 1992 Report for the Social Science Research Council on the Future of European Studies
- 1998 -1999 Consultant for PBS/WETA documentary, "A Force more Powerfu"
- 2001 - 2002 Chair, German Marshal Fund of the United States Research Fellowship Selection Committee
- 2006 Program Consultant, Global Civil Society Program, Ford Foundation
Association Services
- 1985 - 1987 President, Conference Group on Italian Politics
- 1990 - 1991 Chair, A.P.S.A. Gabriel Almond Award Committee
- 1994 - 1996 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Nominations Committee
- 1997 - 1998 Program Chair, Conference Group on Italian Politics
- 1998 - 2001 Member, European Community Studies Association Executive Committee
- 2003 - 2004 Vice President, A.P.S.A. Comparative Politics Section
- 2005-2007 President, A.P.S.A. Comparative Politics Section
Editorial Board
- 1994 - Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Italian Studies
- 1995 - 1998 Member, Editorial Board, Revue Suisse de Science Politique
- 1997 - 2001 Member, Editorial Board, Annual Review of Political Science
- 1998 - Member, Editorial Board, Contentious Politics Series, Cambridge University Press
- 2004- Member, Editorial Board, European Political Science
Background
educational background
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- B.A. Syracuse University, 1960, American Studies
- M.A. Columbia University, 1961, Public Law and Government
- Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1965, Political Science