Donatella DELLA PORTA Professor of Political Science at Scuola Normale Superiore, where she also directs the centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). Her work on social movements, the policing of public order, participatory democracy and political corruption has contributed decisively to the development of contemporary political science and sociology, a fact internationally acknowledged for more than two decades, including through the prestigious Mattei Dogan Award for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology granted by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR, 2011). She is currently working on a major ERC project on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Among her very recent publications are: Mobilizing for democracy: Comparing 1989 and 2011 (Oxford University Press, 2014); (ed.) Methodological Practices in Social Movements Research (Oxford University Press, 2014); Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe (ed. with J.Font and Yves Sintomer; Rowman and Littlefield, 2014); Spreading Protest: From the Arab Spring to Occupy (ed. with A.Mattoni; ECPR Press, 2014); Can Democracy be Saved? (Polity Press, 2013); Clandestine Political Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Blackwell Encyclopedia on Political and Social Movements (with D. Snow, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam); Mobilizing on the Extreme Right (with M. Caiani and C. Wagemann; Oxford University Press, 2012); Meeting Democracy (ed. with D. Rucht; Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is also co-editor of the European Political Science Review (ECPR, Cambridge University Press), as well as founding editorial board member of Oxford Bibliographies On Line: Sociology (Oxford University Press). Contact: [email protected]