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ISERP Working Paper 08-01 On Social Networks and Social Protest UNDERSTANDING THE ORGANIZATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF LARGE-SCALE PROTEST EVENTS DANA R. FISHER DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK MARCH 2008 INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND POLICY PIONEERING SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND SHAPING PUBLIC POLICY ON SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL PROTEST* Understanding the Organizational Embeddedness of Large-Scale Protest Events Dana R. Fisher1 Department of Sociology Columbia University ISERP Working Paper 08-01 March 2008 * I would like to thank the many students who helped collect data in New York City and Paris at the protest events discussed in this paper. Also, I would like to thank Professor Nonna Mayer and participants at the AFSP 2007 Module du GERMM panel on “Questions de Methode” for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. 1 Department of Sociology, Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, 324M Fayerweather Hall, New York, NY, 10027. Email: drf2004@ Abstract How do large-scale protest events differ across nation-states? Do social networks play different roles in different places and, if so, how do they matter? This paper compares the roles that social networks play in mobilizing participants in large-scale domestic protest. Comparing two relatively recent events in the United States and France, I find that different types