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Pamela E. Oliver

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Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Pamela E. Oliver is an American sociologist most well-known for her contributions to theories of social action and her studies of racial injustice in the legal system. She is a Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Pamela E. Oliver's Published Works

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The critical mass in collective action (1993) (960)
A Theory of the Critical Mass. I. Interdependence, Group Heterogeneity, and the Production of Collective Action (1985) (842)
Social Networks and Collective Action: A Theory of the Critical Mass. III (1988) (563)
THE PARADOX OF GROUP SIZE IN COLLECTIVE ACTION: A THEORY OF THE CRITICAL MASS. II. * (1988) (512)
What a Good Idea! Ideologies and Frames in Social Movement Research (2000) (490)
The critical mass in collective action : a micro-social theory (1993) (490)
How Events Enter the Public Sphere: Conflict, Location, and Sponsorship in Local Newspaper Coverage of Public Events1 (1999) (436)
Political Processes and Local Newspaper Coverage of Protest Events: From Selection Bias to Triadic Interactions1 (2000) (411)
A Theory of the Critical Mass (1991) (405)
"IF YOU DON'T DO IT, NOBODY ELSE WILL": ACTIVE AND TOKEN CONTRIBUTORS TO LOCAL COLLECTIVE ACTION* (1984) (354)
What a Good Idea! Frames and Ideologies in Social Movement Research (2000) (209)
Whatever Happened to Critical Mass Theory? A Retrospective and Assessment* (2001) (162)
The Coevolution Of Social Movements (2003) (152)
Social Movements in an Organizational Society: Collected Essays. (1989) (146)
From Local to Global: The Anti-Dam Movement in Southern Brazil, 1979-1992 (1999) (140)
Let the People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America. (1984) (140)
Networks, Diffusion, and Cycles of Collective Action (2003) (116)
Bringing the Crowd Back In: The Nonorganizational Elements of Social Movements* (2002) (114)
MOBILIZING TECHNOLOGIES FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION (2003) (103)
Repression and Crime Control: Why Social Movement Scholars Should Pay Attention to Mass Incarceration as a Form of Repression (2008) (97)
Finding Collective Events (2001) (63)
Emerging Trends in the Study of Protest and Social Movements (2003) (57)
GENDER AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CONSENT IN CHILD-ADULT SEXUAL CONTACT (1998) (54)
Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation (2014) (47)
Drug-related death following release from prison: a brief review of the literature with recommendations for practice. (2011) (37)
God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights.By Charles Marsh. Princeton University Press, 1997. 276 pp. Cloth, $24.95 (1999) (36)
Diffusion Models of Cycles of Protest as a Theory of Social Movements (1999) (28)
The opposing forces diffusion model: the initiation and repression of collective violence (2008) (23)
THE ETHNIC DIMENSIONS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (2017) (23)
Rational action (2019) (23)
Racial disparities in imprisonment: Some basic information (2001) (20)
COLLECTIVE ACTION THEORY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS RESEARCH (2011) (18)
Reach and selectivity as strategies of recruitment for collective action: A theory of the critical mass, V* (1991) (18)
Mobilization Forum: Reply to Snow and Benford (2000) (15)
A REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON CHILD PROSTITUTION (2002) (14)
THE MOBILIZATION OF PAID AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVISTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD MOVEMENT (2011) (12)
Critical Mass Theory (2013) (11)
Collective Action (Collective Behavior) (2013) (7)
The paradox of group size (1993) (7)
The Effect of Black Male Imprisonment on Black Child Poverty 1 (2005) (7)
Ethnicity, Repression, and Fields of Action in Movement Mobilization (2013) (7)
Formal Models in Studying Collective Action and Social Movements (2002) (5)
Resisting Repression: The Black Lives Movement in Context (2020) (5)
The Critical Mass in Collective Action: The critical mass and the problem of collective action (1993) (3)
The Revolt of the Reviewers: Towards Fixing a Broken Publishing Process (2016) (2)
Great Methods Reveal Their Own Limitations (2019) (2)
Modeling the Second-Order Problem is not Easy (1990) (2)
Review Essay: Targeting the Critical Mass@@@The Critical Mass in Collective Action: A Micro-Social Theory. (1994) (1)
1 Networks , Diffusion , and Cycles of Collective Action (2001) (1)
Black Protests in the United States, 1994 to 2010 (2022) (1)
The Ethnic Dimensions : Bringing Ethnic Divisions and Conflict to the Center of Social Movements Theory (2012) (1)
INTRODUCTION: BLACK LIVES MATTER IN CONTEXT (2021) (1)
Racial Patterns in State Trends in Prison Admissions 1983-2003 : Drug and Non-Drug Sentences and Revocations Introduction and National Graphs (2008) (1)
Reply: Theory Is Not a Social Dilemma (1994) (1)
Social Movements and Networks Relational Approaches to Collective Action edited by MARIO DIANI AND (2011) (1)
Constructing Theory-Informed Relational and Verifiable Protest Event Data (2021) (1)
State Black Imprisonment Rates 1983-1999 (2004) (1)
Black Male Imprisonment As Contributors to Black Child Poverty (2005) (1)
Talking about Racial Disparities in Imprisonment: A Reflection on Experiences in Wisconsin (2018) (1)
Black Agency, White Agency (2016) (0)
Repression and Crime Control: Why Social Movements Scholars Should Pay Attention to Policing of Crime as a Form of Repression (2007) (0)
CONSTRUCTING RELATIONAL AND VERIFIABLE PROTEST EVENT DATA: FOUR CHALLENGES AND SOME SOLUTIONS* (2023) (0)
The Critical Mass in Collective Action: The dynamics of production functions (1993) (0)
Private Prison News Project: Article Data from New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Houston Chronicle, 1985-2008 (2012) (0)
Building Popular Power: Workers' and Neighborhood Movements in the Portuguese Revolution.By John L. Hammond. Monthly Review Press, 1988. 301 pp. $12.00 (1991) (0)
Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action. Edited by Traugott Mark. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. 250p. $28.95 cloth, $13.95 paper. (1997) (0)
Selectivity in social networks (1993) (0)
SEX , RACE , AND CLASS BIAS IN CENSUS BUREAU REPORTING OF OCCUPATIONS : A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT (2004) (0)
Pacification and resistance in racialized states (2020) (0)
Social Movements: Ideologies, Interest, and Identities.Anthony Oberschall (1994) (0)
About Taking Criticism (2018) (0)
Providing Useful Knowledge, Becoming Embedded: Issues and Tensions as a Racial Justice Ally (2018) (0)
Relating Theory and Data@@@Organizing for Collective Action: The Political Economies of Associations. (1991) (0)
Privilege and Humility in Addressing Knowledge Divides (2018) (0)
The Critical Mass in Collective Action: Unfinished business (1993) (0)
- 1-Tracking the Causes and Consequences of Racial Disparities in Imprisonment (2001) (0)
The Critical Mass in Collective Action: Reach and selectivity as strategies of recruitment (1993) (0)
Book review: Deadly injustice: Trayvon Martin, race, and the criminal justice system (2017) (0)
Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11. By Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. (2015) (0)
Review Essay: Providing for the Common Good@@@The Critical Mass in Collective Action: A Micro-Social Theory. (1994) (0)
Street Citizens: Protest Politics and Social Movement Activism in the Age of Globalization. By Marco Giugni and Maria T. Grasso. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi+241. $105.00 (cloth); $39.99 (paper). (2020) (0)
Building blocks: goods, groups, and processes (1993) (0)
"Case Study 7.2 Data to Bring Justice: Addressing Disparities in the Criminal Justice System" (2018) (0)
Social networks: density, centralization, and cliques (1993) (0)
Book Reviews: COMPARATIVE POLITICS (2013) (0)
The Revolt of the Reviewers: Towards Fixing a Broken Publishing Process (2016) (0)
What The Numbers Say About How To Reduce Imprisonment: Offenses, Returns, and Turnover (2022) (0)
Repressive Injustice : Political and Social Processes in the Massive Incarceration of African Americans ( working title ) Book Proposal (2003) (0)
Oral History Interview: Pamela Oliver (1050) (2009) (0)

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