William A. Gamson

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1. Doug McAdam

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3. Walter W. Powell

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4. Charles Tilly

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5. Theda Skocpol

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6. Sidney Tarrow

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7. Herbert J. Gans

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8. Shanto Iyengar

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9. Michael X. Delli Carpini

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10. Émile Durkheim

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11. Mancur Olson

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12. John R. Zaller

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13. Robert M. Entman

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14. Robert D. Putnam

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15. Erving Goffman

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16. David Knoke

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17. W. Russell Neuman

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18. Benjamin Barber

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19. Roger V. Gould

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20. Gerald F. Davis

    Author of Social Movements and Organization Theory (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)