1. It’s Transactions, Stupid! Networks of Czech Social Movement Organizations Twenty Years after Communism Ondrej Cisar and Jiri Navratil Institute for Comparative Political Research Masaryk University

2. Specific Research Goals/Questions 1. How do the networks of Czech SMOs look like? Are there differences between the distribution of particular network properties in the case of post-materialistically-oriented ‘new’ SMOs and the ‘old’ type of participatory activism? 2. What accounts for the observed variation in network properties?

3. Two Modes of Activism Participatory activism - its strength and legitimacy depends on its ability to mobilize a significant number of followers, who also supply it with necessary resources (trade unions…). Transactional activism - its strength depends on its (transactional) capacity to link up with other organizations, and integrate them into broader platforms (environmentalists, human rights…).

4. Expectations Descriptive part Two different network structures – a dense networking of transactional activists and a less dense networking of participatory activists Explanatory part The bigger the exposure to international assistance programs, the bigger the capacity on the part of a local organization to assume a central position within inter-organizational networks.

5. Data: Czech SMOs Survey - sectors: environmental, women’s rights, gay and lesbian, civil rights, developmental, agrarian, social services, radical Left groups, and trade unions - snow-ball sampling (some sectors supplemented by expert knowledge), 70 % response rate, N=220 - key informant face-to-face interviewing using a standardized questionnaire, October 2007 – December 2009

6. Operationalization Two dimensions of horizontal transactional capacity: „real“ (sharing resources) and „nominal“ (potential facilitation of information flow) Real ties – existing relations of cooperation among SMOs – all-degree centrality measure Nominal ties – position of actor within the whole network – betweenness centrality measure

7. Network(s) of Czech SMOs I. Weak components of the network (energy layout, Kamada-Kawai, separate components, adjusted)

8. Network(s) of Czech SMOs II. Distribution of the all-degree centrality within the network - main issue area (energy layout, Fruchterman Reingold)

9. Network(s) of Czech SMOs III. Distribution of the all-degree centrality within the network – internally mobilized resources (energy layout, Fruchterman Reingold)

10. Network(s) of Czech SMOs IV. Extraction of the strong network components – the main issue area (energy layout, Fruchterman Reingold, adjusted)

11. Network(s) of Czech SMOs V. Extraction of the strong network components – internally mobilized resources (energy layout, Fruchterman Reingold, adjusted)

12. Explanatory model

13. Questions Operationalization Explanation model improvement Structure of argument