Maria Escobar-Lemmon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Escobar-Lemmon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Escobar-Lemmon |
| SIGNATURE | ESCOBAR-LEMMON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 301 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Apsa Organized Section Awards
In the tradition of Professor Fenno's work, this prize is designed to
Minutes of April 2016, Apsa Council Meeting
Hochschild discussed her goals to improve the annual meeting, as well as improving
The politics of economic crisis
The price of personalizing politics: Political distrust and economic performance in Latin America, 1996-2006
Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation by Graham Smith
Getting to the Top: Career Paths of Women in Latin American Cabinets
Are presidential cabinets gendered institutions? This important question has been ignored for Latin America to date. In this article, the authors propose four benchmarks for evaluating whether presidential cabinets should be classified as gendered institutions. If they are we should observe (1) that there are differences in career length, continuity, and mobility between men and women; (2) that women receive feminine domain posts and men masculin…
Federalism and Democracy in Latin America
Journal Article Federalism and Democracy in Latin America Get access Federalism and Democracy in Latin America by Edward L. Gibson. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 336 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. Maria Escobar-Lemmon Maria Escobar-Lemmon Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 120, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 173–174, https://doi.o…
Women Ministers in Latin American Government: When, Where, and Why
We examine factors that affect the supply of and demand for female cabinet ministers in Latin America and seek to understand the frequency with which women join cabinets and the types of portfolios women receive. Our analysis covers 18 Latin American democracies from 1980 to 2003. We find that presidents from parties of the left appoint more women. Increases in the percentage of women in the legislature and higher human development correlate with…
Political Support for Decentralization: An Analysis of the Colombian and Venezuelan Legislatures
A worldwide trend of decentralizing political power, fiscal authority, and the responsibility for providing services to subnational governments has been especially evident in Latin America over the past decade. This article focuses on variation in intracountry support for decentralization, using data on bill initiation from Colombia and Venezuela to determine the domestic sources of this policy. While the data support prior findings that decentra…
Women Ministers in Latin American Government: When, Where, and Why
We examine factors that affect the supply of and demand for female cabinet ministers in Latin America and seek to understand the frequency with which women join cabinets and the types of portfolios women receive. Our analysis covers 18 Latin American democracies from 1980 to 2003. We find that presidents from parties of the left appoint more women. Increases in the percentage of women in the legislature and higher human development correlate with…
Getting to the Top: Career Paths of Women in Latin American Cabinets
Are presidential cabinets gendered institutions? This important question has been ignored for Latin America to date. In this article, the authors propose four benchmarks for evaluating whether presidential cabinets should be classified as gendered institutions. If they are we should observe (1) that there are differences in career length, continuity, and mobility between men and women; (2) that women receive feminine domain posts and men masculin…
Political Support for Decentralization: An Analysis of the Colombian and Venezuelan Legislatures
A worldwide trend of decentralizing political power, fiscal authority, and the responsibility for providing services to subnational governments has been especially evident in Latin America over the past decade. This article focuses on variation in intracountry support for decentralization, using data on bill initiation from Colombia and Venezuela to determine the domestic sources of this policy. While the data support prior findings that decentra…
The price of personalizing politics: Political distrust and economic performance in Latin America, 1996-2006
Federalism and Democracy in Latin America
Journal Article Federalism and Democracy in Latin America Get access Federalism and Democracy in Latin America by Edward L. Gibson. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 336 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. Maria Escobar-Lemmon Maria Escobar-Lemmon Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 120, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 173–174, https://doi.o…
The politics of economic crisis
Political Support for Decentralization: An Analysis of the Colombian and Venezuelan Legislatures
A worldwide trend of decentralizing political power, fiscal authority, and the responsibility for providing services to subnational governments has been especially evident in Latin America over the past decade. This article focuses on variation in intracountry support for decentralization, using data on bill initiation from Colombia and Venezuela to determine the domestic sources of this policy. While the data support prior findings that decentra…
Federalism and Democracy in Latin America
Journal Article Federalism and Democracy in Latin America Get access Federalism and Democracy in Latin America by Edward L. Gibson. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 336 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. Maria Escobar-Lemmon Maria Escobar-Lemmon Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 120, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 173–174, https://doi.o…
Women Ministers in Latin American Government: When, Where, and Why
We examine factors that affect the supply of and demand for female cabinet ministers in Latin America and seek to understand the frequency with which women join cabinets and the types of portfolios women receive. Our analysis covers 18 Latin American democracies from 1980 to 2003. We find that presidents from parties of the left appoint more women. Increases in the percentage of women in the legislature and higher human development correlate with…
Getting to the Top: Career Paths of Women in Latin American Cabinets
Are presidential cabinets gendered institutions? This important question has been ignored for Latin America to date. In this article, the authors propose four benchmarks for evaluating whether presidential cabinets should be classified as gendered institutions. If they are we should observe (1) that there are differences in career length, continuity, and mobility between men and women; (2) that women receive feminine domain posts and men masculin…
Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation by Graham Smith
The politics of economic crisis
The price of personalizing politics: Political distrust and economic performance in Latin America, 1996-2006
Minutes of April 2016, Apsa Council Meeting
Hochschild discussed her goals to improve the annual meeting, as well as improving
Apsa Organized Section Awards
In the tradition of Professor Fenno's work, this prize is designed to
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works)