Lisa Baldez
Biographic Data
| ID | 227966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Baldez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Baldez |
| SIGNATURE | BALDEZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-7858-4152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 358 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Bridging Attribute and Process: Reflections on Founding Politics & Gender
We are delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Politics & Gender. This achievement signals an inflection point in the maturity of the subfield of women, gender, and politics research, and provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the role that the journal has played in the discipline of political science
What’s at stake in the treaty reporting process? Cuba and the United Nations’ convention on women’s rights
What impact do U.N. human rights treaties have on the countries that ratify them? Most of the scholarly literature on this topic focuses on ratification, with little attention to the ways that the process of reporting can shape compliance. Ratification commits countries to a regular process of documenting and defending the extent to which they comply with a particular treaty. Many countries participate faithfully in the reporting process, devotin…
Tacking between the global and the local: A reply to DeLaet and Bunting
In these two pieces, DeLaet and Bunting express reservations about the potential for international law to have positive effects on the de facto status of the world's citizens—but point to activism on the local level as the most viable way to strengthen the human rights regime. In her thorough overview of the literature on the impact of international law, DeLaet focuses on the ability of local activists to domestic international treaties by mobili…
Quotas and qualifications: The impact of gender quota laws on the qualifications of legislators in the Italian parliament
This article addresses concerns that candidates nominated because of gender quota laws will be less qualified for office. While questions of candidate quality have long been relevant to legislative behavior, quota laws requiring a certain percentage of candidates for national office to be women have generated renewed interest. Gender quotas are often perceived to reduce the scope of political competition. By putting gender identity center stage, …
Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women's Rights
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) articulates what has now become a global norm. CEDAW establishes the moral, civic, and political equality of women; women's right to be free from discrimination and violence; and the responsibility of governments to take positive action to achieve these goals. The United States is not among the 187 countries that have ratified the treaty. To explain why the Uni…
The UN Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw): A New Way to Measure Women's Interests
Questions about the quality of political representation are central to research on women and gender, and to political science in general. Given a certain set of interests, how well do political institutions and political actors address and advance those interests? Research about the quality of political representation relies a priori on the existence of fixed, stable, and measurable interests; we need to know what women want before we can assess …
The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics
What accounts for the glaring inattention to work on gender within mainstream political science? Part of the problem lies in the substance of scholarship itself. The concepts, central questions, and key variables that predominate in the mainstream literature on comparative democratization and in the literature on gender and democratization have contributed to the gulf between them. But a more fundamental explanation lies in the starting assumptio…
Political Women and American Democracy
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Political Women and American Democracy
What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women's participation in American politics and an explosion of research on female political actors, and the transformations effected by them, during the same period. Political Women and American Democracy provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research by leading experts in the field. The collected essays ex…
Primaries vs. Quotas: Gender and Candidate Nominations in Mexico, 2003
Parties throughout Latin America have recently addressed two distinct kinds of electoral reforms: primary elections and national-level gender quota laws. This study examines how these reforms interact, their mutual compatibility, and their effect on the nomination of men compared to that of women. It develops a series of hypotheses about this relationship by analyzing the 2003 legislative elections in Mexico, a case in which the three main partie…
The Pros and Cons of Gender Quota Laws: What Happens When You Kick Men Out and Let Women In
What country currently boasts the highest percentage of women in parliamentary office? If you ask most people, they will guess one of the Nordic countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, or Denmark. These guesses are close in one sense but very far off in another. The answer is Rwanda. As of this writing, women make up nearly half of the members of the Rwandan Chamber of Deputies—48.8% according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2005b). Most people fin…
Elected Bodies: The Gender Quota Law for Legislative Candidates in Mexico
In the past decade, 21 countries have adopted gender quota laws that require between 20% and 50% of all legislative candidates to be women. What explains the adoption of these laws? I argue that three factors make politicians more likely to adopt gender quota laws. First, electoral uncertainty creates an opportunity for internal party reform that factions within a party can exploit to their advantage. Second, the courts play an important role bec…
Women's Movements and Democratic Transition in Chile, Brazil, East Germany, and Poland
This article focuses particularly on this last point. Womens movements represent many different identities interests and issues. Despite important differences however many womens movements experience a particular moment at which women unite on the basis of their gender identity. At this moment he peak of mobilization in womens movements a diverse array of womens organizations comes together to form a coalition that transcends cleavages along clas…
Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba
Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile
Why do women protest? Under what conditions do women protest on the basis of their gender identity? Professor Baldez answers in terms of tipping, timing and framing. She relies on the concept of tipping to identify the point at which diverse organizations converge to form a women's movement. She argues that two conditions trigger this mobilization among women: partisan realignment, understood as the emergence of a new set of issues around which p…
Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development
Journal Article Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development Get access Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development by Daniel C. Levy and Kathleen Bruhn with Emilio Zebadúa. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001. 362 pp. Paper, $18.95. Lisa Baldez Lisa Baldez Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 167–168, h…
Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right
Coalition Politics and the Limits of State Feminism in Chile
Studies of government agencies for women identify a series of factors necessary for a high level of commitment to feminist policy. These include strong grassroots pressure, a highly statist political culture, an organizational structure that facilitates cooperation with other government agencies, international norms, and political will on behalf of government leaders (Friedman 2000; Stetson and Mazur 1995). In Chile on the eve of democratic trans…
Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil
Journal Article Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil Get access Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil by Rebecca Neara Abers. Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2000. 267 pp. $59.95. Lisa Baldez Lisa Baldez Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 116, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 684–685, https://doi.org/10.23…
Coalition politics and the limits of state feminism in Chile
Presidential Agenda Control and Spending Policy: Lessons from General Pinochet's Constitution
Formal institutions put in place upon the establishment of a new democracy can have profound effects on political bargaining. We demonstrate how the budgetary procedure bequeathed by the outgoing Chilean military regime affects policy choices available to elected officials. Chilean budget procedure should discourage deficits, allow for a reduction in the relative size of the defense budget, and facilitate cuts in executive proposals when the inst…
Women's Organizations and the Development of Civil Society
Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Groups in the Middle East. Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.224pp.Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. Temma Kaplan. New York: Routledge, 1997.243 pp.Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below. Lynn Stephen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.332 pp.Feminist Nationalism. Lois A. West. ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.294pp
Elected Bodies: The Gender Quota Law for Legislative Candidates in Mexico
In the past decade, 21 countries have adopted gender quota laws that require between 20% and 50% of all legislative candidates to be women. What explains the adoption of these laws? I argue that three factors make politicians more likely to adopt gender quota laws. First, electoral uncertainty creates an opportunity for internal party reform that factions within a party can exploit to their advantage. Second, the courts play an important role bec…
Quotas and qualifications: The impact of gender quota laws on the qualifications of legislators in the Italian parliament
This article addresses concerns that candidates nominated because of gender quota laws will be less qualified for office. While questions of candidate quality have long been relevant to legislative behavior, quota laws requiring a certain percentage of candidates for national office to be women have generated renewed interest. Gender quotas are often perceived to reduce the scope of political competition. By putting gender identity center stage, …
The Pros and Cons of Gender Quota Laws: What Happens When You Kick Men Out and Let Women In
What country currently boasts the highest percentage of women in parliamentary office? If you ask most people, they will guess one of the Nordic countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, or Denmark. These guesses are close in one sense but very far off in another. The answer is Rwanda. As of this writing, women make up nearly half of the members of the Rwandan Chamber of Deputies—48.8% according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2005b). Most people fin…
Presidential Agenda Control and Spending Policy: Lessons from General Pinochet's Constitution
Formal institutions put in place upon the establishment of a new democracy can have profound effects on political bargaining. We demonstrate how the budgetary procedure bequeathed by the outgoing Chilean military regime affects policy choices available to elected officials. Chilean budget procedure should discourage deficits, allow for a reduction in the relative size of the defense budget, and facilitate cuts in executive proposals when the inst…
Women's Movements and Democratic Transition in Chile, Brazil, East Germany, and Poland
This article focuses particularly on this last point. Womens movements represent many different identities interests and issues. Despite important differences however many womens movements experience a particular moment at which women unite on the basis of their gender identity. At this moment he peak of mobilization in womens movements a diverse array of womens organizations comes together to form a coalition that transcends cleavages along clas…
The UN Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw): A New Way to Measure Women's Interests
Questions about the quality of political representation are central to research on women and gender, and to political science in general. Given a certain set of interests, how well do political institutions and political actors address and advance those interests? Research about the quality of political representation relies a priori on the existence of fixed, stable, and measurable interests; we need to know what women want before we can assess …
Primaries vs. Quotas: Gender and Candidate Nominations in Mexico, 2003
Parties throughout Latin America have recently addressed two distinct kinds of electoral reforms: primary elections and national-level gender quota laws. This study examines how these reforms interact, their mutual compatibility, and their effect on the nomination of men compared to that of women. It develops a series of hypotheses about this relationship by analyzing the 2003 legislative elections in Mexico, a case in which the three main partie…
The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics
What accounts for the glaring inattention to work on gender within mainstream political science? Part of the problem lies in the substance of scholarship itself. The concepts, central questions, and key variables that predominate in the mainstream literature on comparative democratization and in the literature on gender and democratization have contributed to the gulf between them. But a more fundamental explanation lies in the starting assumptio…
Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development
Journal Article Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development Get access Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development by Daniel C. Levy and Kathleen Bruhn with Emilio Zebadúa. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001. 362 pp. Paper, $18.95. Lisa Baldez Lisa Baldez Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 167–168, h…
Coalition Politics and the Limits of State Feminism in Chile
Studies of government agencies for women identify a series of factors necessary for a high level of commitment to feminist policy. These include strong grassroots pressure, a highly statist political culture, an organizational structure that facilitates cooperation with other government agencies, international norms, and political will on behalf of government leaders (Friedman 2000; Stetson and Mazur 1995). In Chile on the eve of democratic trans…
Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right
What’s at stake in the treaty reporting process? Cuba and the United Nations’ convention on women’s rights
What impact do U.N. human rights treaties have on the countries that ratify them? Most of the scholarly literature on this topic focuses on ratification, with little attention to the ways that the process of reporting can shape compliance. Ratification commits countries to a regular process of documenting and defending the extent to which they comply with a particular treaty. Many countries participate faithfully in the reporting process, devotin…
Bridging Attribute and Process: Reflections on Founding Politics & Gender
We are delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Politics & Gender. This achievement signals an inflection point in the maturity of the subfield of women, gender, and politics research, and provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the role that the journal has played in the discipline of political science
Coalition politics and the limits of state feminism in Chile
Women's Organizations and the Development of Civil Society
Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Groups in the Middle East. Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.224pp.Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. Temma Kaplan. New York: Routledge, 1997.243 pp.Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below. Lynn Stephen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.332 pp.Feminist Nationalism. Lois A. West. ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.294pp
Women's Organizations and the Development of Civil Society
Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Groups in the Middle East. Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo. eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.224pp.Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. Temma Kaplan. New York: Routledge, 1997.243 pp.Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below. Lynn Stephen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.332 pp.Feminist Nationalism. Lois A. West. ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.294pp
Presidential Agenda Control and Spending Policy: Lessons from General Pinochet's Constitution
Formal institutions put in place upon the establishment of a new democracy can have profound effects on political bargaining. We demonstrate how the budgetary procedure bequeathed by the outgoing Chilean military regime affects policy choices available to elected officials. Chilean budget procedure should discourage deficits, allow for a reduction in the relative size of the defense budget, and facilitate cuts in executive proposals when the inst…
Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right
Coalition Politics and the Limits of State Feminism in Chile
Studies of government agencies for women identify a series of factors necessary for a high level of commitment to feminist policy. These include strong grassroots pressure, a highly statist political culture, an organizational structure that facilitates cooperation with other government agencies, international norms, and political will on behalf of government leaders (Friedman 2000; Stetson and Mazur 1995). In Chile on the eve of democratic trans…
Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil
Journal Article Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil Get access Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil by Rebecca Neara Abers. Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2000. 267 pp. $59.95. Lisa Baldez Lisa Baldez Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 116, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 684–685, https://doi.org/10.23…
Coalition politics and the limits of state feminism in Chile
Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile
Why do women protest? Under what conditions do women protest on the basis of their gender identity? Professor Baldez answers in terms of tipping, timing and framing. She relies on the concept of tipping to identify the point at which diverse organizations converge to form a women's movement. She argues that two conditions trigger this mobilization among women: partisan realignment, understood as the emergence of a new set of issues around which p…
Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development
Journal Article Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development Get access Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development by Daniel C. Levy and Kathleen Bruhn with Emilio Zebadúa. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001. 362 pp. Paper, $18.95. Lisa Baldez Lisa Baldez Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 167–168, h…
Women's Movements and Democratic Transition in Chile, Brazil, East Germany, and Poland
This article focuses particularly on this last point. Womens movements represent many different identities interests and issues. Despite important differences however many womens movements experience a particular moment at which women unite on the basis of their gender identity. At this moment he peak of mobilization in womens movements a diverse array of womens organizations comes together to form a coalition that transcends cleavages along clas…
Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba
Elected Bodies: The Gender Quota Law for Legislative Candidates in Mexico
In the past decade, 21 countries have adopted gender quota laws that require between 20% and 50% of all legislative candidates to be women. What explains the adoption of these laws? I argue that three factors make politicians more likely to adopt gender quota laws. First, electoral uncertainty creates an opportunity for internal party reform that factions within a party can exploit to their advantage. Second, the courts play an important role bec…
The Pros and Cons of Gender Quota Laws: What Happens When You Kick Men Out and Let Women In
What country currently boasts the highest percentage of women in parliamentary office? If you ask most people, they will guess one of the Nordic countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, or Denmark. These guesses are close in one sense but very far off in another. The answer is Rwanda. As of this writing, women make up nearly half of the members of the Rwandan Chamber of Deputies—48.8% according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2005b). Most people fin…
Primaries vs. Quotas: Gender and Candidate Nominations in Mexico, 2003
Parties throughout Latin America have recently addressed two distinct kinds of electoral reforms: primary elections and national-level gender quota laws. This study examines how these reforms interact, their mutual compatibility, and their effect on the nomination of men compared to that of women. It develops a series of hypotheses about this relationship by analyzing the 2003 legislative elections in Mexico, a case in which the three main partie…
Political Women and American Democracy
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Political Women and American Democracy
What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women's participation in American politics and an explosion of research on female political actors, and the transformations effected by them, during the same period. Political Women and American Democracy provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research by leading experts in the field. The collected essays ex…
The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics
What accounts for the glaring inattention to work on gender within mainstream political science? Part of the problem lies in the substance of scholarship itself. The concepts, central questions, and key variables that predominate in the mainstream literature on comparative democratization and in the literature on gender and democratization have contributed to the gulf between them. But a more fundamental explanation lies in the starting assumptio…
The UN Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw): A New Way to Measure Women's Interests
Questions about the quality of political representation are central to research on women and gender, and to political science in general. Given a certain set of interests, how well do political institutions and political actors address and advance those interests? Research about the quality of political representation relies a priori on the existence of fixed, stable, and measurable interests; we need to know what women want before we can assess …
Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women's Rights
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) articulates what has now become a global norm. CEDAW establishes the moral, civic, and political equality of women; women's right to be free from discrimination and violence; and the responsibility of governments to take positive action to achieve these goals. The United States is not among the 187 countries that have ratified the treaty. To explain why the Uni…
Quotas and qualifications: The impact of gender quota laws on the qualifications of legislators in the Italian parliament
This article addresses concerns that candidates nominated because of gender quota laws will be less qualified for office. While questions of candidate quality have long been relevant to legislative behavior, quota laws requiring a certain percentage of candidates for national office to be women have generated renewed interest. Gender quotas are often perceived to reduce the scope of political competition. By putting gender identity center stage, …
What’s at stake in the treaty reporting process? Cuba and the United Nations’ convention on women’s rights
What impact do U.N. human rights treaties have on the countries that ratify them? Most of the scholarly literature on this topic focuses on ratification, with little attention to the ways that the process of reporting can shape compliance. Ratification commits countries to a regular process of documenting and defending the extent to which they comply with a particular treaty. Many countries participate faithfully in the reporting process, devotin…
Tacking between the global and the local: A reply to DeLaet and Bunting
In these two pieces, DeLaet and Bunting express reservations about the potential for international law to have positive effects on the de facto status of the world's citizens—but point to activism on the local level as the most viable way to strengthen the human rights regime. In her thorough overview of the literature on the impact of international law, DeLaet focuses on the ability of local activists to domestic international treaties by mobili…
Bridging Attribute and Process: Reflections on Founding Politics & Gender
We are delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Politics & Gender. This achievement signals an inflection point in the maturity of the subfield of women, gender, and politics research, and provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the role that the journal has played in the discipline of political science
Political science (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Democracy (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works)