Dieter Rucht
Dieter Rucht is a German sociologist. He is known for his contributions to the protest and social movement literature. Until his retirement in June 2011, he was co-director of the research group Civil Society, Citizenship, and Political Mobilization in Europe at the Social Science Research Center Berlin and honorary professor at the institute of sociology of the Free University of Berlin.
Rucht taught and conducted research in Munich, Berlin, Cambridge, Paris and Ann Arbor.Publications (selection)
- as an editor jointly with Donatella della Porta and Hanspeter Kriesi: Social Movements in a Globalizing world. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ; 023023531X
- as an editor jointly with Wim Van De Donk, Brian D. Loader and Paul G. Nixon: Cyberprotest: New media, citizens and social movements. London: Routledge, 2004
- as an editor jointly with Stefaan Walgrave: The World Says No to War. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/London 2010,
- Modernisierung und neue soziale Bewegungen. Deutschland, Frankreich und USA im Vergleich. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1997,
