Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Institute for Humanities and the Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, where she directs the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). Her recent publications include Social Movements in Times of Austerity (2014) and Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research (2014). Massimiliano Andretta is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Pisa, Italy. His recent publications include “Power and arguments in global justice movement settings” in D. della Porta and D. Rucht (eds) Meeting Democracy (2013) and “Dynamics of Individual Participation” (with D. della Porta, 2014). Tiago Fernandes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nova University in Lisbon, Portugal. His recent publications include Civil Society (2014) and “Rethinking Pathways to Democracy: Civil Society in Spain and Portugal, 1960s – 2014” (2014). Francis O’Connor is Post-Doctoral Researcher on the PRIME project at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. His research areas include Kurdish politics and the conflict in Turkey, the trade union militancy in South Africa, and a forthcoming co-authored book on social movement participation in the campaign for independence in Scotland and Catalonia. Eduardo Romanos is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow in the Department of Sociology I at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Among his most recent publications are articles in Social Movement Studies, Contemporary European History, and Journal of Historical Sociology. Markos Vogiatzoglou is Special Adviser to the Greek Government’s Minister of State. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute. His recent publications include the articles “Lost in the Ocean of Deregulation? The Greek Labour Movement in a Time of Crisis” (with L. Kretsos, 2015) and “Workers’ transnational networks in austerity times: The case of Italy and Greece” (2015).