Kristin Wylie
Biographic Data
| ID | 225233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Wylie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wylie |
| SIGNATURE | WYLIE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3010-8365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Overcoming Institutional Constraints
This article analyzes networks of critical actors advancing women’s representation in Brazil, positing that when executives or legislatures weaken inclusionary policies, courts can help safeguard them. In a context of persistent underrepresentation, coordinated efforts across parliament, parties, civil society, and the judiciary have created alternative pathways to expand women’s political opportunities. Focusing on access to campaign finance, we…
Informal institutions and gendered candidate selection in Brazilian parties
Six electoral cycles since the implementation of Brazil’s gender quota, just 15% of the 513 members of the Chamber of Deputies are women. We ask how parties’ use of informal institutions mediates the effectiveness of the gender quota. Drawing on data from more than 4,000 state-level party organizations, we show that parties employ informal practices that intentionally and non-intentionally interact with gender equity rules to affect women’s polit…
Gendering Coalitional Presidentialism in Brazil
Coalitional presidentialism is a power-sharing strategy deployed in multiparty presidentialist democracies that entails the distribution of cabinet positions to coalition partners to facilitate governability. This model of governance is increasingly common worldwide, gaining growing scholarly interest. The consequences of coalitional presidentialism for women’s cabinet representation, however, have received scant attention. In this article, we pr…
Transnational organizing, the boosting effect, and women’s legislative caucuses in Africa
The share of women holding legislative office in Africa more than doubled between 1998 and 2019, reaching almost 24%. Despite this increase in women's descriptive representation, women members of parliaments (MPs) continue to encounter exclusionary masculinized environments. One way to facilitate women’s work in these male-dominated parliaments is through the creation of Women’s Legislative Caucuses (WLCs).This article explores the diffusion of W…
Racialized differences in perceptions of and emotional responses to police killings of unarmed African Americans
Widespread attention to, and mobilization against, police killings of unarmed African Americans shatter any lingering myths of a post-racial America. We argue that the entrenched racial divide in the lived experiences and perceptions of whites and African Americans is mediated by emotions. Continuing research about the perceptions of and emotions attached to political events by people of different races, we draw on an embedded experiment. We cont…
Taking bread off the table
Traditional gender roles, gendered political institutions and resource inequities disincentivise women’s participation in formal politics. This article analyses the Brazilian case – where women comprise 9.2 per cent of federal legislators elected since 1994 – to illustrate the centrality of resources in shaping candidate emergence. I examine how entrepreneurial elections, which incentivise intra-party competition and expensive campaigns, have sus…
The adoption of women’s legislative caucuses worldwide
Recent decades have witnessed the rise, across a wide range of countries, of political institutions designed to promote gender equality and women’s political representation. Existing studies have shown how international diffusion processes have contributed to the adoption of two kinds of such institutions – gender mainstreaming and gender quotas. Mounting evidence suggests that institutional reforms within legislatures constitute the latest wave …
Extreme non-viable candidates and quota maneuvering in Brazilian legislative elections
This article explores the causes and consequences of extreme non-viable candidacies, also known as " laranja " (orange) candidacies in the Brazilian political lore. We first define and delineate what makes a candidate a laranja, engaging the comparative literature on sacrificial lambs and using district-level electoral results to operationalize the concept. We then advance a typology of laranjas with four ideal types that vary along dimensions of…
A Law on Paper Only
This article advances a party-centric analysis of gender quotas in Brazil. We examine how parties mediate electoral rules, finding that neither the implementation of the Lei de Cotas (Quota Law) in 1995 nor its 2009 mini-reform was sufficient to induce significant change in party strategies for the nomination and election of women. Moreover, we find that while the open-list proportional representation electoral system is an important part of the …
Feeling the Pain of My People
In late August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the U.S. Gulf Coast region causing a subsequent cycle of evacuation, relocation, and rebuilding. The storm exposed in its wake vast racial and class differences in how the hurricane and its aftermath affected individual citizens. Using two public opinion polls conducted immediately after Katrina, the authors demonstrate that African Americans in this country were much more likely than White…
A Law on Paper Only
This article advances a party-centric analysis of gender quotas in Brazil. We examine how parties mediate electoral rules, finding that neither the implementation of the Lei de Cotas (Quota Law) in 1995 nor its 2009 mini-reform was sufficient to induce significant change in party strategies for the nomination and election of women. Moreover, we find that while the open-list proportional representation electoral system is an important part of the …
Informal institutions and gendered candidate selection in Brazilian parties
Six electoral cycles since the implementation of Brazil’s gender quota, just 15% of the 513 members of the Chamber of Deputies are women. We ask how parties’ use of informal institutions mediates the effectiveness of the gender quota. Drawing on data from more than 4,000 state-level party organizations, we show that parties employ informal practices that intentionally and non-intentionally interact with gender equity rules to affect women’s polit…
Taking bread off the table
Traditional gender roles, gendered political institutions and resource inequities disincentivise women’s participation in formal politics. This article analyses the Brazilian case – where women comprise 9.2 per cent of federal legislators elected since 1994 – to illustrate the centrality of resources in shaping candidate emergence. I examine how entrepreneurial elections, which incentivise intra-party competition and expensive campaigns, have sus…
Extreme non-viable candidates and quota maneuvering in Brazilian legislative elections
This article explores the causes and consequences of extreme non-viable candidacies, also known as " laranja " (orange) candidacies in the Brazilian political lore. We first define and delineate what makes a candidate a laranja, engaging the comparative literature on sacrificial lambs and using district-level electoral results to operationalize the concept. We then advance a typology of laranjas with four ideal types that vary along dimensions of…
Racialized differences in perceptions of and emotional responses to police killings of unarmed African Americans
Widespread attention to, and mobilization against, police killings of unarmed African Americans shatter any lingering myths of a post-racial America. We argue that the entrenched racial divide in the lived experiences and perceptions of whites and African Americans is mediated by emotions. Continuing research about the perceptions of and emotions attached to political events by people of different races, we draw on an embedded experiment. We cont…
The adoption of women’s legislative caucuses worldwide
Recent decades have witnessed the rise, across a wide range of countries, of political institutions designed to promote gender equality and women’s political representation. Existing studies have shown how international diffusion processes have contributed to the adoption of two kinds of such institutions – gender mainstreaming and gender quotas. Mounting evidence suggests that institutional reforms within legislatures constitute the latest wave …
Transnational organizing, the boosting effect, and women’s legislative caucuses in Africa
The share of women holding legislative office in Africa more than doubled between 1998 and 2019, reaching almost 24%. Despite this increase in women's descriptive representation, women members of parliaments (MPs) continue to encounter exclusionary masculinized environments. One way to facilitate women’s work in these male-dominated parliaments is through the creation of Women’s Legislative Caucuses (WLCs).This article explores the diffusion of W…
Gendering Coalitional Presidentialism in Brazil
Coalitional presidentialism is a power-sharing strategy deployed in multiparty presidentialist democracies that entails the distribution of cabinet positions to coalition partners to facilitate governability. This model of governance is increasingly common worldwide, gaining growing scholarly interest. The consequences of coalitional presidentialism for women’s cabinet representation, however, have received scant attention. In this article, we pr…
Feeling the Pain of My People
In late August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the U.S. Gulf Coast region causing a subsequent cycle of evacuation, relocation, and rebuilding. The storm exposed in its wake vast racial and class differences in how the hurricane and its aftermath affected individual citizens. Using two public opinion polls conducted immediately after Katrina, the authors demonstrate that African Americans in this country were much more likely than White…
A Law on Paper Only
This article advances a party-centric analysis of gender quotas in Brazil. We examine how parties mediate electoral rules, finding that neither the implementation of the Lei de Cotas (Quota Law) in 1995 nor its 2009 mini-reform was sufficient to induce significant change in party strategies for the nomination and election of women. Moreover, we find that while the open-list proportional representation electoral system is an important part of the …
Taking bread off the table
Traditional gender roles, gendered political institutions and resource inequities disincentivise women’s participation in formal politics. This article analyses the Brazilian case – where women comprise 9.2 per cent of federal legislators elected since 1994 – to illustrate the centrality of resources in shaping candidate emergence. I examine how entrepreneurial elections, which incentivise intra-party competition and expensive campaigns, have sus…
The adoption of women’s legislative caucuses worldwide
Recent decades have witnessed the rise, across a wide range of countries, of political institutions designed to promote gender equality and women’s political representation. Existing studies have shown how international diffusion processes have contributed to the adoption of two kinds of such institutions – gender mainstreaming and gender quotas. Mounting evidence suggests that institutional reforms within legislatures constitute the latest wave …
Extreme non-viable candidates and quota maneuvering in Brazilian legislative elections
This article explores the causes and consequences of extreme non-viable candidacies, also known as " laranja " (orange) candidacies in the Brazilian political lore. We first define and delineate what makes a candidate a laranja, engaging the comparative literature on sacrificial lambs and using district-level electoral results to operationalize the concept. We then advance a typology of laranjas with four ideal types that vary along dimensions of…
Transnational organizing, the boosting effect, and women’s legislative caucuses in Africa
The share of women holding legislative office in Africa more than doubled between 1998 and 2019, reaching almost 24%. Despite this increase in women's descriptive representation, women members of parliaments (MPs) continue to encounter exclusionary masculinized environments. One way to facilitate women’s work in these male-dominated parliaments is through the creation of Women’s Legislative Caucuses (WLCs).This article explores the diffusion of W…
Racialized differences in perceptions of and emotional responses to police killings of unarmed African Americans
Widespread attention to, and mobilization against, police killings of unarmed African Americans shatter any lingering myths of a post-racial America. We argue that the entrenched racial divide in the lived experiences and perceptions of whites and African Americans is mediated by emotions. Continuing research about the perceptions of and emotions attached to political events by people of different races, we draw on an embedded experiment. We cont…
Informal institutions and gendered candidate selection in Brazilian parties
Six electoral cycles since the implementation of Brazil’s gender quota, just 15% of the 513 members of the Chamber of Deputies are women. We ask how parties’ use of informal institutions mediates the effectiveness of the gender quota. Drawing on data from more than 4,000 state-level party organizations, we show that parties employ informal practices that intentionally and non-intentionally interact with gender equity rules to affect women’s polit…
Gendering Coalitional Presidentialism in Brazil
Coalitional presidentialism is a power-sharing strategy deployed in multiparty presidentialist democracies that entails the distribution of cabinet positions to coalition partners to facilitate governability. This model of governance is increasingly common worldwide, gaining growing scholarly interest. The consequences of coalitional presidentialism for women’s cabinet representation, however, have received scant attention. In this article, we pr…
Overcoming Institutional Constraints
This article analyzes networks of critical actors advancing women’s representation in Brazil, positing that when executives or legislatures weaken inclusionary policies, courts can help safeguard them. In a context of persistent underrepresentation, coordinated efforts across parliament, parties, civil society, and the judiciary have created alternative pathways to expand women’s political opportunities. Focusing on access to campaign finance, we…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Legislature (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (4 works)