Patrice C. McMahon is Director of the University Honors Program and Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

Paula M. Pickering is Richard S. Perles Professor of Government and Faculty Affiliate of the Global Research Institute at William & Mary, USA.

Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction to civil society 2.0

Paula M. Pickering and Patrice C. McMahon

Chapter 2: Polarization as driver and barrier to civic activism

Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom

Chapter 3: Democratic innovations as a response to shrinking public space

Paulina Pospieszna and Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves

Chapter 4: Conflict and collaboration in generational divides

Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom and Patrice McMahon

Chapter 5: The lure of digital activism

Patrice C. McMahon, Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Darko Brkan, and Alena Popova

Chapter 6: Everyday environmentalism

Laura A. Henry, Samir Lemeš, and Paula M. Pickering

Chapter 7: Crises: COVID-19 and Russia's war on Ukraine

Ella Rossman, Valerie Sperling, and Paula M. Pickering

Chapter 8: From the margins to central stage: insights and lessons

Paula M. Pickering, Patrice C. McMahon, and Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves