Abstract
Collective action often depends on the social ties among members of a group. For example, it is widely agreed that participants in social movement organizations are usually recruited through preexisting social ties and that mobilization is more likely when the members of the beneficiary population are linked by social ties than when they are not (e.g. Tilly, 1978; Oberschall, 1973). In a recent paper (Maxwell, Oliver and Prahl, 1988) we have used formal theory and computer simulation to show how two fundamental aspects of the social networks of groups — their density and their level of centralization — positively affect the likelihood of collective action by those groups.2)
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