Louise K Davidson-Schmich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise K Davidson-Schmich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise K |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson-Schmich |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON-SCHMICH L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0832-3392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A harbinger of things to come in the US? Academic Freedom in Florida since 2019
Crisis, Gender Role Congruency, and Perceptions of Executive Leadership
At a time of pandemics, international economic downturns, and increasing environmental threats due to climate change, countries around the world are facing numerous crises. What impact might we expect these crises to have on the already common perception that executive leadership is a masculine domain? For years, women executives’ ability to lead has been questioned (Jalalzai 2013). However, the outbreak of COVID-19 brought headlines like CNN’s “…
What Do (Parties Think) Women and LGBTI Citizens Want: Party Platforms, Gender, and Sexuality in the 2021 German Federal Election
In this article I document the main German parties' 2021 election platforms regarding gender and sexuality. These manifestos contained considerably different portrayals of gendered inequalities in the Federal Republic, preferred diverse roles for the state in ameliorating gendered inequalities, and called for state action in distinct spheres. Parties also generally viewed "women" and "lgbti" people as homogeneous entities rather than intersection…
Ruth Wittlinger and Wade Jacoby
The gendered political ambition cycle in mixed-member electoral systems
This article introduces a theoretical model that shows how four mechanisms (work–life balance, psychological, gatekeeper bias and diversity mechanisms) explain why pursuing a nomination as list Members of Parliament is the more attractive option for women in mixed-member electoral systems. It also demonstrates how women’s resulting greater likelihood of being list Members of Parliament creates what we call a gendered cycle, further reducing women…
When States Come Out: Europe’s Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility
Phillip M. Ayoub's When States Come Out was inspired by a puzzling phenomenon he observed while living in Berlin in 2005–06: Polish LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) activists residing in
LGBTI Rights and the 2017 German National Election
This article examines the 2017 German national election through the lens of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) interests. It depicts the ways in which sexual minorities articulated their policy preferences, the degree to which these positions were taken up in party platforms and electoral discourse, and the extent to which the resulting coalition agreement pledged to address queer citizens' concerns. I argue that, as a resu…
LGBT Politics in Germany: Unification as a Catalyst for Change
The two and a half decades since unification brought about significant paradigm changes in German social policies towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens including, inter alia, the legalisation of same-sex partnerships, an expansion of the rights granted to these same sex couples, and reforms allowing individuals to change their legal gender without divorcing or undergoing irrevocable surgeries. This article investigates d…
Closing the Gap: Gender and Constituency Candidate Nomination in the 2013 Bundestag Election
Since the adoption of candidate gender quotas, women have always fared better in the "second" or PR tier of Bundestag elections than in the "first" or plurality tier, where quotas do not apply. This gap, however, has been closing. In the 2009 Bundestag election, 27 percent of the major parties' direct mandate candidates were women compared to almost 30 percent in 2013. All parties experienced an increase in the percentage of women among their nom…
Stößt die Frauenquote an ihre Grenzen? Eine Untersuchung der Bundestagswahl 2009
ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen , Seite 25 - 34
Gender, Intersectionality, and the Executive Branch: The Case of Angela Merkel
This introduction provides a theoretical framework for investigating the effect of gender on national-level executive branch leadership. Currently, there is no consensus as to what is expected of a woman who occupies her country's highest office. The article argues that this disagreement is due to the assumption of an idealised ‘woman leader’. Adopting an intersectional approach to studying gender and executive leadership, it is argued that it is…
Afterword
This afterword summarises our main findings and discusses their political and scholarly implications. We find that Merkel's leadership style and foreign policy approach were consensual during her first term in office; moreover, she did not overtly address women's issues – although her coalition did promulgate legislation which improved conditions for some German women. Our argument here is not that the Chancellor adopted this leadership style and…
Gender Quota Compliance and Contagion in the 2009 Bundestag Election
This article examines the candidates for the 2009 Bundestag election and asks three questions. First, did German political parties comply with their voluntarily-adopted gender quotas for their electoral lists-both in terms of the numbers of women nominated and their placement on the party list? Second, did parties without gender quotas place female candidates in promising list places? In other words, did quotas exert a "contagion effect" and spur…
Institutional Capital: Building Post-Communist Government Performance
Institutional Capital: Building Post-Communist Government Performance. By Laura Brunell. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. 270p. $59.00. cloth, $39.00 paper This book makes an important theoretical contribution by opening the “black box” linking social capital and democratic performance. Spurred by Robert Putnam's observed correlation between social capital and budget promptness ( Making Democracy Work, 1995), Laura Brunell seeks to …
Ahead of Her Time: Eva Kolinsky and the Limits of German Gender Quotas
As German political parties began to implement gender quotas, Eva Kolinsky was sceptical whether such quotas could succeed in increasing women's presence in German legislatures. She predicted that women's unequal share of home and family responsibilities and their dislike of traditional political structures would limit the quotas' success. This article, written over a decade after Kolinsky's work, assesses the accuracy of her predictions. It find…
Searching for the Origins of civic community in Central Europe: Evidence from Eastern and Western Germany
Although many scholars stress the importance of a civic political culture for a functioning democracy, there is little consensus about where such a culture originates. The 'bottom-up' approach argues that the civic culture has centuries-old, enduring roots that in turn shape political and economic institutions. The 'top-down' approach implies that political culture itself can be shaped by political institutions. Both schools of thought, however, …
Implementation of Political Party Gender Quotas: Evidence from the German Länder 1990–2000
The use of gender quotas to increase women's political representation in legislatures has expanded in recent years. Scholars have identified three main categories of gender quotas, including constitutional, election law and political party quotas. While considerable attention has been devoted to classifying types of quotas, to explaining why they were adopted and to investigating which quota provisions are most effective, little is known about th…
The Origins of Party Discipline: Evidence from Eastern Germany
In Germany, the Bundestag and the Landtage (state parliaments) in the old Länder (states) have such consistently high levels of party discipline that there is not enough variance to determine the cause of this behavior. The creation of five new democratic state legislatures after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, however, provides a unique opportunity to investigate the origins of party voting. I test which of three hypothesized institu…
Institutions and Innovation. Voters, Parties, and Interest Groups in the Consolidation of Democracy: France and Germany, 1870-1939
If all parties need votes to get elected, why do some parties court voters more ardently than others? To answer this question, the book analyzes how political institutions determine the degree to which parties behave as entrepreneurial agents of voters or as inert, bureaucratic behemoths and how different levels of party responsiveness affect democratic consolidation.Institutions and Innovations analyzes the troubled history of French and German …
Part 2: Discipline
While it has long been observed in western Europe that deputies from the same party caucus generally take identical positions when legislative votes are taken, the explanation for this commonly occurring party voting agreement is controversial. The sociological approach argues that MPs hold together for normative reasons while the institutionalist tradition argues that discipline emerges as rational actors discover self-interested reasons to vote…
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t (always) make it drink: Postive freedom in the aftermath of German unification
This article investigates the degree to which the East Germans have acted on the freedoms they gained after the fall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Initially, many observers expected that the East Germans would quickly take advantage of their political, religious, and economic freedoms to become as entrepreneurial, partisan, and religious as their Western counterparts. Over the past decade, however, social scientists have discovered the…
Party Discipline and Universalism: The Case of Budgeting in Berlin
Work on the US Congress has found that when partisan differences are strong, legislation tends to be passed by minimum winning coalitions. When partisanship is weak, Congress and its committees often rely on the norm of universalism or 'giving something to everyone' to pass legislation. Universalism in legislative voting is expected to lead to bloated or inefficient public spending. This article investigates whether these hypotheses about party d…
Toeing the Line: Institutional Rules, Elites, and Party Discipline in Post-Wall Berlin
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc provided students of Germany and eastern Europe with unprecedented opportunities to investigate the attitudes and values of those socialized under communism. Extensive mass and elite opinion studies have documented that after decades of rule by an all-encompassing political party imposing iron discipline, eastern Europeans distrust political parties as well as party discipline.…
Implementation of Political Party Gender Quotas: Evidence from the German Länder 1990–2000
The use of gender quotas to increase women's political representation in legislatures has expanded in recent years. Scholars have identified three main categories of gender quotas, including constitutional, election law and political party quotas. While considerable attention has been devoted to classifying types of quotas, to explaining why they were adopted and to investigating which quota provisions are most effective, little is known about th…
When States Come Out: Europe’s Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility
Phillip M. Ayoub's When States Come Out was inspired by a puzzling phenomenon he observed while living in Berlin in 2005–06: Polish LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) activists residing in
Crisis, Gender Role Congruency, and Perceptions of Executive Leadership
At a time of pandemics, international economic downturns, and increasing environmental threats due to climate change, countries around the world are facing numerous crises. What impact might we expect these crises to have on the already common perception that executive leadership is a masculine domain? For years, women executives’ ability to lead has been questioned (Jalalzai 2013). However, the outbreak of COVID-19 brought headlines like CNN’s “…
Gender, Intersectionality, and the Executive Branch: The Case of Angela Merkel
This introduction provides a theoretical framework for investigating the effect of gender on national-level executive branch leadership. Currently, there is no consensus as to what is expected of a woman who occupies her country's highest office. The article argues that this disagreement is due to the assumption of an idealised ‘woman leader’. Adopting an intersectional approach to studying gender and executive leadership, it is argued that it is…
Gender Quota Compliance and Contagion in the 2009 Bundestag Election
This article examines the candidates for the 2009 Bundestag election and asks three questions. First, did German political parties comply with their voluntarily-adopted gender quotas for their electoral lists-both in terms of the numbers of women nominated and their placement on the party list? Second, did parties without gender quotas place female candidates in promising list places? In other words, did quotas exert a "contagion effect" and spur…
The gendered political ambition cycle in mixed-member electoral systems
This article introduces a theoretical model that shows how four mechanisms (work–life balance, psychological, gatekeeper bias and diversity mechanisms) explain why pursuing a nomination as list Members of Parliament is the more attractive option for women in mixed-member electoral systems. It also demonstrates how women’s resulting greater likelihood of being list Members of Parliament creates what we call a gendered cycle, further reducing women…
LGBT Politics in Germany: Unification as a Catalyst for Change
The two and a half decades since unification brought about significant paradigm changes in German social policies towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens including, inter alia, the legalisation of same-sex partnerships, an expansion of the rights granted to these same sex couples, and reforms allowing individuals to change their legal gender without divorcing or undergoing irrevocable surgeries. This article investigates d…
Part 2: Discipline
While it has long been observed in western Europe that deputies from the same party caucus generally take identical positions when legislative votes are taken, the explanation for this commonly occurring party voting agreement is controversial. The sociological approach argues that MPs hold together for normative reasons while the institutionalist tradition argues that discipline emerges as rational actors discover self-interested reasons to vote…
Closing the Gap: Gender and Constituency Candidate Nomination in the 2013 Bundestag Election
Since the adoption of candidate gender quotas, women have always fared better in the "second" or PR tier of Bundestag elections than in the "first" or plurality tier, where quotas do not apply. This gap, however, has been closing. In the 2009 Bundestag election, 27 percent of the major parties' direct mandate candidates were women compared to almost 30 percent in 2013. All parties experienced an increase in the percentage of women among their nom…
LGBTI Rights and the 2017 German National Election
This article examines the 2017 German national election through the lens of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) interests. It depicts the ways in which sexual minorities articulated their policy preferences, the degree to which these positions were taken up in party platforms and electoral discourse, and the extent to which the resulting coalition agreement pledged to address queer citizens' concerns. I argue that, as a resu…
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t (always) make it drink: Postive freedom in the aftermath of German unification
This article investigates the degree to which the East Germans have acted on the freedoms they gained after the fall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Initially, many observers expected that the East Germans would quickly take advantage of their political, religious, and economic freedoms to become as entrepreneurial, partisan, and religious as their Western counterparts. Over the past decade, however, social scientists have discovered the…
Afterword
This afterword summarises our main findings and discusses their political and scholarly implications. We find that Merkel's leadership style and foreign policy approach were consensual during her first term in office; moreover, she did not overtly address women's issues – although her coalition did promulgate legislation which improved conditions for some German women. Our argument here is not that the Chancellor adopted this leadership style and…
Ahead of Her Time: Eva Kolinsky and the Limits of German Gender Quotas
As German political parties began to implement gender quotas, Eva Kolinsky was sceptical whether such quotas could succeed in increasing women's presence in German legislatures. She predicted that women's unequal share of home and family responsibilities and their dislike of traditional political structures would limit the quotas' success. This article, written over a decade after Kolinsky's work, assesses the accuracy of her predictions. It find…
Searching for the Origins of civic community in Central Europe: Evidence from Eastern and Western Germany
Although many scholars stress the importance of a civic political culture for a functioning democracy, there is little consensus about where such a culture originates. The 'bottom-up' approach argues that the civic culture has centuries-old, enduring roots that in turn shape political and economic institutions. The 'top-down' approach implies that political culture itself can be shaped by political institutions. Both schools of thought, however, …
Party Discipline and Universalism: The Case of Budgeting in Berlin
Work on the US Congress has found that when partisan differences are strong, legislation tends to be passed by minimum winning coalitions. When partisanship is weak, Congress and its committees often rely on the norm of universalism or 'giving something to everyone' to pass legislation. Universalism in legislative voting is expected to lead to bloated or inefficient public spending. This article investigates whether these hypotheses about party d…
Toeing the Line: Institutional Rules, Elites, and Party Discipline in Post-Wall Berlin
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc provided students of Germany and eastern Europe with unprecedented opportunities to investigate the attitudes and values of those socialized under communism. Extensive mass and elite opinion studies have documented that after decades of rule by an all-encompassing political party imposing iron discipline, eastern Europeans distrust political parties as well as party discipline.…
The Origins of Party Discipline: Evidence from Eastern Germany
In Germany, the Bundestag and the Landtage (state parliaments) in the old Länder (states) have such consistently high levels of party discipline that there is not enough variance to determine the cause of this behavior. The creation of five new democratic state legislatures after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, however, provides a unique opportunity to investigate the origins of party voting. I test which of three hypothesized institu…
Toeing the Line: Institutional Rules, Elites, and Party Discipline in Post-Wall Berlin
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc provided students of Germany and eastern Europe with unprecedented opportunities to investigate the attitudes and values of those socialized under communism. Extensive mass and elite opinion studies have documented that after decades of rule by an all-encompassing political party imposing iron discipline, eastern Europeans distrust political parties as well as party discipline.…
Party Discipline and Universalism: The Case of Budgeting in Berlin
Work on the US Congress has found that when partisan differences are strong, legislation tends to be passed by minimum winning coalitions. When partisanship is weak, Congress and its committees often rely on the norm of universalism or 'giving something to everyone' to pass legislation. Universalism in legislative voting is expected to lead to bloated or inefficient public spending. This article investigates whether these hypotheses about party d…
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t (always) make it drink: Postive freedom in the aftermath of German unification
This article investigates the degree to which the East Germans have acted on the freedoms they gained after the fall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Initially, many observers expected that the East Germans would quickly take advantage of their political, religious, and economic freedoms to become as entrepreneurial, partisan, and religious as their Western counterparts. Over the past decade, however, social scientists have discovered the…
Institutions and Innovation. Voters, Parties, and Interest Groups in the Consolidation of Democracy: France and Germany, 1870-1939
If all parties need votes to get elected, why do some parties court voters more ardently than others? To answer this question, the book analyzes how political institutions determine the degree to which parties behave as entrepreneurial agents of voters or as inert, bureaucratic behemoths and how different levels of party responsiveness affect democratic consolidation.Institutions and Innovations analyzes the troubled history of French and German …
Part 2: Discipline
While it has long been observed in western Europe that deputies from the same party caucus generally take identical positions when legislative votes are taken, the explanation for this commonly occurring party voting agreement is controversial. The sociological approach argues that MPs hold together for normative reasons while the institutionalist tradition argues that discipline emerges as rational actors discover self-interested reasons to vote…
Searching for the Origins of civic community in Central Europe: Evidence from Eastern and Western Germany
Although many scholars stress the importance of a civic political culture for a functioning democracy, there is little consensus about where such a culture originates. The 'bottom-up' approach argues that the civic culture has centuries-old, enduring roots that in turn shape political and economic institutions. The 'top-down' approach implies that political culture itself can be shaped by political institutions. Both schools of thought, however, …
Implementation of Political Party Gender Quotas: Evidence from the German Länder 1990–2000
The use of gender quotas to increase women's political representation in legislatures has expanded in recent years. Scholars have identified three main categories of gender quotas, including constitutional, election law and political party quotas. While considerable attention has been devoted to classifying types of quotas, to explaining why they were adopted and to investigating which quota provisions are most effective, little is known about th…
The Origins of Party Discipline: Evidence from Eastern Germany
In Germany, the Bundestag and the Landtage (state parliaments) in the old Länder (states) have such consistently high levels of party discipline that there is not enough variance to determine the cause of this behavior. The creation of five new democratic state legislatures after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, however, provides a unique opportunity to investigate the origins of party voting. I test which of three hypothesized institu…
Institutional Capital: Building Post-Communist Government Performance
Institutional Capital: Building Post-Communist Government Performance. By Laura Brunell. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. 270p. $59.00. cloth, $39.00 paper This book makes an important theoretical contribution by opening the “black box” linking social capital and democratic performance. Spurred by Robert Putnam's observed correlation between social capital and budget promptness ( Making Democracy Work, 1995), Laura Brunell seeks to …
Ahead of Her Time: Eva Kolinsky and the Limits of German Gender Quotas
As German political parties began to implement gender quotas, Eva Kolinsky was sceptical whether such quotas could succeed in increasing women's presence in German legislatures. She predicted that women's unequal share of home and family responsibilities and their dislike of traditional political structures would limit the quotas' success. This article, written over a decade after Kolinsky's work, assesses the accuracy of her predictions. It find…
Gender Quota Compliance and Contagion in the 2009 Bundestag Election
This article examines the candidates for the 2009 Bundestag election and asks three questions. First, did German political parties comply with their voluntarily-adopted gender quotas for their electoral lists-both in terms of the numbers of women nominated and their placement on the party list? Second, did parties without gender quotas place female candidates in promising list places? In other words, did quotas exert a "contagion effect" and spur…
Stößt die Frauenquote an ihre Grenzen? Eine Untersuchung der Bundestagswahl 2009
ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen , Seite 25 - 34
Gender, Intersectionality, and the Executive Branch: The Case of Angela Merkel
This introduction provides a theoretical framework for investigating the effect of gender on national-level executive branch leadership. Currently, there is no consensus as to what is expected of a woman who occupies her country's highest office. The article argues that this disagreement is due to the assumption of an idealised ‘woman leader’. Adopting an intersectional approach to studying gender and executive leadership, it is argued that it is…
Afterword
This afterword summarises our main findings and discusses their political and scholarly implications. We find that Merkel's leadership style and foreign policy approach were consensual during her first term in office; moreover, she did not overtly address women's issues – although her coalition did promulgate legislation which improved conditions for some German women. Our argument here is not that the Chancellor adopted this leadership style and…
Closing the Gap: Gender and Constituency Candidate Nomination in the 2013 Bundestag Election
Since the adoption of candidate gender quotas, women have always fared better in the "second" or PR tier of Bundestag elections than in the "first" or plurality tier, where quotas do not apply. This gap, however, has been closing. In the 2009 Bundestag election, 27 percent of the major parties' direct mandate candidates were women compared to almost 30 percent in 2013. All parties experienced an increase in the percentage of women among their nom…
LGBT Politics in Germany: Unification as a Catalyst for Change
The two and a half decades since unification brought about significant paradigm changes in German social policies towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens including, inter alia, the legalisation of same-sex partnerships, an expansion of the rights granted to these same sex couples, and reforms allowing individuals to change their legal gender without divorcing or undergoing irrevocable surgeries. This article investigates d…
When States Come Out: Europe’s Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility
Phillip M. Ayoub's When States Come Out was inspired by a puzzling phenomenon he observed while living in Berlin in 2005–06: Polish LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) activists residing in
LGBTI Rights and the 2017 German National Election
This article examines the 2017 German national election through the lens of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) interests. It depicts the ways in which sexual minorities articulated their policy preferences, the degree to which these positions were taken up in party platforms and electoral discourse, and the extent to which the resulting coalition agreement pledged to address queer citizens' concerns. I argue that, as a resu…
The gendered political ambition cycle in mixed-member electoral systems
This article introduces a theoretical model that shows how four mechanisms (work–life balance, psychological, gatekeeper bias and diversity mechanisms) explain why pursuing a nomination as list Members of Parliament is the more attractive option for women in mixed-member electoral systems. It also demonstrates how women’s resulting greater likelihood of being list Members of Parliament creates what we call a gendered cycle, further reducing women…
Ruth Wittlinger and Wade Jacoby
What Do (Parties Think) Women and LGBTI Citizens Want: Party Platforms, Gender, and Sexuality in the 2021 German Federal Election
In this article I document the main German parties' 2021 election platforms regarding gender and sexuality. These manifestos contained considerably different portrayals of gendered inequalities in the Federal Republic, preferred diverse roles for the state in ameliorating gendered inequalities, and called for state action in distinct spheres. Parties also generally viewed "women" and "lgbti" people as homogeneous entities rather than intersection…
Crisis, Gender Role Congruency, and Perceptions of Executive Leadership
At a time of pandemics, international economic downturns, and increasing environmental threats due to climate change, countries around the world are facing numerous crises. What impact might we expect these crises to have on the already common perception that executive leadership is a masculine domain? For years, women executives’ ability to lead has been questioned (Jalalzai 2013). However, the outbreak of COVID-19 brought headlines like CNN’s “…
A harbinger of things to come in the US? Academic Freedom in Florida since 2019
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Political economy (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Economics (11 works) · German (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (8 works) · Public Administration (7 works)