ROBERT D.BENFORD Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USAMYRA MARX FERREE Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut, USAWILLIAM A.GAMSON Professor of Sociology, Boston College, USA and Co-director of the Media Research and Action Project (MRAP)DOUG IMIG Member of the Department of Political Science, University of Memphis, USA and Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard UniversityBERT KLANDERMANS Professor in Applied Social Psychology, Free University, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsRUUD KOOPMANS Senior Researcher, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung (WZB)CHRISTIAN LAHUSEN Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, GermanyGARY MARKS Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USADOUG MCADAM Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, USAJOHN D.MCCARTHY Professor of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, USACLARK MCPHAIL Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USAFLORENCE PASSY Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandJACKIE SMITH Assistant Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USADAVID A.SNOW Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, USASIDNEY TARROW Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University, USAMARGA DE WEERD Phd student of applied social psychology, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands