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Overview

Holly J. McCammon is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans several fields, including law, political science and international relations, gender studies, sociology and political science, as well as public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's research addresses a range of topics, notable among them are judicial and constitutional studies, gender politics and representation, reproductive health and contraception, reproductive health and technologies, political conflict and governance, electoral systems and political participation, and social media and politics.

Recent publications by Holly J. McCammon include:

  • "Fighting Words: Pro-Choice Cause Lawyering, Legal-Framing Innovations, and Hostile Political-Legal Contexts" (2021, Law & Social Inquiry)
  • "Discursive Opportunity Structure" (2022, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements)
  • "THE SUPREME COURT AS AN ARENA FOR ACTIVISM: FEMINIST CAUSE LAWYERING'S INFLUENCE ON JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING*" (2020, Mobilization An International Quarterly)
  • "Feminist Friends of the Court: Amicus Curiae, Social Movement Institutional Activism, and the U.S. Supreme Court's Women's Rights Cases" (2022, Sociological Focus)
  • "Madam President? Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House" (2021, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with McCammon include:

  • Cathryn Beeson-Lynch
  • Minyoung Moon
  • Amanda Konet
  • Brittany N. Hearne
  • Megan Robinson

Publications by McCammon have appeared repeatedly in the following venues:

  • Mobilization An International Quarterly
  • Sociological Focus
  • The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • Law & Social Inquiry
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

Best Publications

  • HoW MOVEMENTS WIN: GENDERED OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES AND U.S. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENTS, 1866 TO 1919

    Holly J. Mccammon;Karen E. Campbell;Ellen M. Granberg;Christine Mowery

  • The Emergence, Development, and Future of the Framing Perspective: 25+ Years Since "Frame Alignment"

    David A. Snow;Robert D. Benford;Holly J. McCammon;Lyndi Hewitt

  • Movement Framing and Discursive Opportunity Structures: The Political Successes of the U.S. Women's Jury Movements

    Holly J. McCammon;Courtney Sanders Muse;Harmony D. Newman;Teresa M. Terrell

  • Allies On the Road to Victory: Coalition Formation Between The Suffragists and The Woman's Christian Temperance Union

    Holly McCammon;Karen Campbell

  • "Out of the Parlors and into the Streets": The Changing Tactical Repertoire of the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movements

    Holly J. McCammon

  • Stirring Up Suffrage Sentiment: The Formation of the State Woman Suffrage Organizations, 1866–1914

    Holly J. McCammon

  • Becoming full citizens: The U.S. women's jury rights campaigns, the pace of reform, and strategic adaptation

    Holly J. McCammon;Soma Chaudhuri;Lyndi Hewitt;Courtney Sanders Muse

  • Workers and their Customers and Clients: An Editorial Introduction

    Holly J. McCAMMON;Larry J. Griffin

  • Discursive Opportunity Structure

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  • From Repressive Intervention to Integrative Prevention: The U.S. State's Legal Management of Labor Militancy, 1881–1978

    Holly J. McCammon

  • WINNING THE VOTE IN THE WEST The Political Successes of the Women's Suffrage Movements, 1866-1919

    Holly J. McCAMMON;Karen E. Campbell

  • Explaining Suffrage Mobilization: Balance, Neutralization, and Range in Collective Action Frames, 1892–1919

    Lyndi Hewitt;Holly McCammon

  • Labor revitalization : global perspectives and new initiatives

    Daniel B. Cornfield;Holly J. McCammon

  • Explaining Frame Variation: More Moderate and Radical Demands for Women's Citizenship in the U.S. Women's Jury Movements

    Holly J. McCammon

  • The Oxford handbook of U.S. women's social movement activism

    Holly J. McCammon

  • The Politics of Protection: State Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Laws for Women in the United States, 1870–1930

    Holly J. McCammon

  • Beyond Frame Resonance: The Argumentative Structure and Persuasive Capacity of Twentieth-Century U.S. Women's Jury-Rights Frames

    Holly McCammon

  • Legal Limits on Labor Militancy: U.S. Labor Law and the Right to Strike since the New Deal

    Holly J. McCammon

  • The U.S. Women's Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation: A More Just Verdict

    Holly J. McCammon

  • Disorganizing and Reorganizing Conflict: Outcomes of the State's Legal Regulation of the Strike since the Wagner Act

    Holly J. McCammon

  • The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women’s Rights around the World:

    Holly J. McCammon

  • Protest and Opportunities: The Political Outcomes of Social MovementsProtest and Opportunities: The Political Outcomes of Social Movements, by KolbFelix. Frankfurt, NY: Campus Verlag, 2007. 329 pp. $46.00 paper. ISBN: 9783593384139.

    Holly McCammon

  • Strategic Frame Amplification in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movements

    Holly J. McCammon;Lyndi Hewitt;Sandy Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Snow
David A. Snow University of California, Irvine
Sarah A. Soule
Sarah A. Soule Stanford University
Tony Brown
Tony Brown Manchester Metropolitan University

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