Marie Jeanne Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 237625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Jeanne Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie Jeanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2176-3328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 296 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Anglophone Conflict, New Institutions, and Women's Access to Political Power in Cameroon
In several African states, postconflict contexts provide opportunities for the expansion of women's political representation. Little is known, however, about the opportunities for enhancing women's participation in politics during ongoing conflicts. We examine the relationship between conflict and women's political representation in Cameroon, which has experienced conflict in its anglophone regions since 2017. The government has responded to the …
Gender-Balanced Representation and the Erosion of Global Liberal Norms
How will the rise of China and other illiberal regimes affect the behaviour-shaping power of global liberal norms? The paper uses updated dyadic data on ambassadorial appointments to address this question. It focuses on the fate of a global liberal norm on gender-balanced representation. It argues that when powerful international partners discount the importance of gender balance, governments become less likely to prioritise gender balance themse…
African Women’s Movements and the African Union
Gendering Gamson's Law
Which factors explain variation in the gendered composition of governing cabinets? To address this question, we transpose the idea of proportionality between legislative seat shares and cabinet seats shares from studies of the partisan composition of cabinets to studies of the gender composition of cabinets. Gamson's law identifies a strong association between the proportion of legislative seats a party contributes to a governing coalition and th…
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…
Increasing women's representation in the Cameroon parliament: Do numbers really matter
African Women’s Movements and the African Union
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 …
Making Institutions and Context Count: How Useful Is Feminist Institutionalism in Explaining Male Dominance in Politics
While the same formal candidate selection rules are generally in place throughout a state, there is often intracountry variation in male descriptive overrepresentation. To explain this variation, scholars cannot focus exclusively on women (e.g., how do women respond to formal institutional opportunities?) or femininity (e.g., how do norms governing appropriate female behavior affect women's odds of being selected as a candidate?). Rather, scholar…
Ratchets and See-Saws: Divergent Institutional Patterns in Women's Political Representation
Women's representation in legislative and executive offices has increased in recent decades. We show, though, that while global legislative and executive trend lines have positive slopes, the two institutions experience distinctive temporal dynamics. When levels of women's legislative representation rise, they tend not to slip back beyond their newly achieved level-women's legislative representation tends to be characterized by a ratchet effect. …
Will rising powers undermine global norms? The case of gender-balanced decision-making
Will rising world powers tilt global norms in less progressive directions? While there has been much theoretical speculation on this question, few scholars have explored it empirically. This article uses existing empirical evidence to test the extent to which countries compromise their own values to gain favor with influential countries. We analyze the gender of ambassadors sent to rising powers and established powers and suggest that this analys…
The Representation of Women in African Legislatures and Cabinets: An Examination with Reference to Ghana
Why do some countries with low levels of women's legislative representation have high levels of women's cabinet representation? We focus on sub-Saharan Africa to show that countries with high levels of women's legislative representation do not necessarily have high levels of women's cabinet representation and discuss how legislative laggards can emerge as cabinet leaders through a case study of Ghana. We argue that three factors—a conducive insti…
Context and Media Frames: The Case of Liberia
There is a growing body of work examining gender stereotypes in media representations of female candidates, but much of this literature is based on analysis of media sources in developed countries, including the United States (Braden 1996; Jalalzai 2006; Kahn 1994, 1996; Smith 1997), Australia (Kittilson and Fridkin 2008), Canada (Kittilson and Fridkin 2008), France (Murray 2010b), and Germany (Wiliarty 2010). The increase in female presidential …
Gender Norms and Women's Political Representation: A Global Analysis of Cabinets, 1979–2009
What role does the international diffusion of gender norms play in determining recent increases in women's political representation? We argue that norm diffusion has larger positive effects on women's cabinet representation than on women's legislative representation. We also show that within cabinets, norm diffusion affects low‐prestige appointments more than high‐prestige appointments. We test these arguments using an original database of minist…
Breaking the Final Glass Ceiling: The Influence of Gender in the Elections of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Michelle Bachelet
The article extends the limited literature on women national leaders by providing a comparative study of two popularly elected women presidents: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia and Michelle Bachelet in Chile. Both Bachelet and Johnson-Sirleaf rose to power in situations that lacked the circumstances identified by current literature as mitigating gendered barriers to national leadership: neither woman was connected to politically powerful familie…
Liberia's Election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Women's Executive Leadership in Africa
In November 2005, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first female elected head of state in sub-Saharan Africa. On the face of it, the fact that this important breakthrough occurred in Liberia may seem paradoxical given that Liberia recently came out of years of conflict and is one of the poorest countries in the world. Generally, the advancement of women politically has been associated with the economic advancement of a country (Inglehart and Norri…
National Machineries’ and Authoritarian Politics: The Case of Cameroon
Why do authoritarian states adopt ‘state feminist’ policies, and what are the effects of these initiatives? This article expands our understanding of state feminist institutions in non-democracies by examining the development of a women's national machinery in Cameroon. It argues that the Cameroonian state has adopted a national machinery because: (1) it provides low-cost international legitimacy; (2) it attracts international assistance; (3) thi…
Regional Advocacy Networks and the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
While there has been a significant amount of research on transnational feminist activism at the global level, many feminist transnational advocacy networks are mobilizing within world regions. The lack of attention to the regional level has created a considerable imbalance in research on transnational activism. This article's first objective is to define regional advocacy networks (RANs) as a collection of individuals and organizations from the s…
Structural Aspects of East Sumbanese Art
The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia
Introduction James J. Fox Part One: Marriage, Alliance, and Exchange 1. Principles and Variations in the Structure of Sumbanese Society Rodney Needham 2. The Marriage Nexus among the Manggarai of West Flores John L. Gordon 3. Concordance, Structure, and Variation: Considerations of Alliance in Kedang Robert H. Barnes 4. Obligation and Alliance: State Structure and Moiety Organization in Thie, Roti James J. Fox 5. The Social Organization of the Em…
Audiovisual Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Television Productions: Teacher's Guide, anonymous, no date, 16 pp. Free from Time‐Life Multimedia. The Tribal Eye, David Attenborough Television Productions: The Tribal Eye, David Attenborough
Audiovisuals Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Films on Southeast Asia: Sixteen Films on Weaving. Films on Southeast Asia: Making hemp thread for weaving. Films on Southeast Asia: Preparation of handloom. Films on Southeast Asia: Hemp weaving on a treadloom. Films on Southeast Asia: Batiking a sling to carry children. Films on Southeast Asia: Removing the seed from cotton with a special machine. Films on Southeast Asia: Shaking up and fulling cotton. Films on So…
Symbols of the organized community in East Sumba, Indonesia
Structural Aspects of a Village Art1
This article demonstrates that compositional principles of decorated textiles in East Sumba, Indonesia, find parallels in the formal rules by which major activities of the society are organized. In exploring the implications of this common use of structures, it suggests that this art does not reflect society but that both respond to the same structural principles which are those preferred as intellectual forms by the local culture
Approach to Arts and Ceremony, East Sumba, Indonesia
The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia
Introduction James J. Fox Part One: Marriage, Alliance, and Exchange 1. Principles and Variations in the Structure of Sumbanese Society Rodney Needham 2. The Marriage Nexus among the Manggarai of West Flores John L. Gordon 3. Concordance, Structure, and Variation: Considerations of Alliance in Kedang Robert H. Barnes 4. Obligation and Alliance: State Structure and Moiety Organization in Thie, Roti James J. Fox 5. The Social Organization of the Em…
Gender Norms and Women's Political Representation: A Global Analysis of Cabinets, 1979–2009
What role does the international diffusion of gender norms play in determining recent increases in women's political representation? We argue that norm diffusion has larger positive effects on women's cabinet representation than on women's legislative representation. We also show that within cabinets, norm diffusion affects low‐prestige appointments more than high‐prestige appointments. We test these arguments using an original database of minist…
Structural Aspects of a Village Art1
This article demonstrates that compositional principles of decorated textiles in East Sumba, Indonesia, find parallels in the formal rules by which major activities of the society are organized. In exploring the implications of this common use of structures, it suggests that this art does not reflect society but that both respond to the same structural principles which are those preferred as intellectual forms by the local culture
Liberia's Election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Women's Executive Leadership in Africa
In November 2005, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first female elected head of state in sub-Saharan Africa. On the face of it, the fact that this important breakthrough occurred in Liberia may seem paradoxical given that Liberia recently came out of years of conflict and is one of the poorest countries in the world. Generally, the advancement of women politically has been associated with the economic advancement of a country (Inglehart and Norri…
Breaking the Final Glass Ceiling: The Influence of Gender in the Elections of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Michelle Bachelet
The article extends the limited literature on women national leaders by providing a comparative study of two popularly elected women presidents: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia and Michelle Bachelet in Chile. Both Bachelet and Johnson-Sirleaf rose to power in situations that lacked the circumstances identified by current literature as mitigating gendered barriers to national leadership: neither woman was connected to politically powerful familie…
National Machineries’ and Authoritarian Politics: The Case of Cameroon
Why do authoritarian states adopt ‘state feminist’ policies, and what are the effects of these initiatives? This article expands our understanding of state feminist institutions in non-democracies by examining the development of a women's national machinery in Cameroon. It argues that the Cameroonian state has adopted a national machinery because: (1) it provides low-cost international legitimacy; (2) it attracts international assistance; (3) thi…
The Representation of Women in African Legislatures and Cabinets: An Examination with Reference to Ghana
Why do some countries with low levels of women's legislative representation have high levels of women's cabinet representation? We focus on sub-Saharan Africa to show that countries with high levels of women's legislative representation do not necessarily have high levels of women's cabinet representation and discuss how legislative laggards can emerge as cabinet leaders through a case study of Ghana. We argue that three factors—a conducive insti…
Regional Advocacy Networks and the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
While there has been a significant amount of research on transnational feminist activism at the global level, many feminist transnational advocacy networks are mobilizing within world regions. The lack of attention to the regional level has created a considerable imbalance in research on transnational activism. This article's first objective is to define regional advocacy networks (RANs) as a collection of individuals and organizations from the s…
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 …
Symbols of the organized community in East Sumba, Indonesia
Gendering Gamson's Law
Which factors explain variation in the gendered composition of governing cabinets? To address this question, we transpose the idea of proportionality between legislative seat shares and cabinet seats shares from studies of the partisan composition of cabinets to studies of the gender composition of cabinets. Gamson's law identifies a strong association between the proportion of legislative seats a party contributes to a governing coalition and th…
Making Institutions and Context Count: How Useful Is Feminist Institutionalism in Explaining Male Dominance in Politics
While the same formal candidate selection rules are generally in place throughout a state, there is often intracountry variation in male descriptive overrepresentation. To explain this variation, scholars cannot focus exclusively on women (e.g., how do women respond to formal institutional opportunities?) or femininity (e.g., how do norms governing appropriate female behavior affect women's odds of being selected as a candidate?). Rather, scholar…
Ratchets and See-Saws: Divergent Institutional Patterns in Women's Political Representation
Women's representation in legislative and executive offices has increased in recent decades. We show, though, that while global legislative and executive trend lines have positive slopes, the two institutions experience distinctive temporal dynamics. When levels of women's legislative representation rise, they tend not to slip back beyond their newly achieved level-women's legislative representation tends to be characterized by a ratchet effect. …
Will rising powers undermine global norms? The case of gender-balanced decision-making
Will rising world powers tilt global norms in less progressive directions? While there has been much theoretical speculation on this question, few scholars have explored it empirically. This article uses existing empirical evidence to test the extent to which countries compromise their own values to gain favor with influential countries. We analyze the gender of ambassadors sent to rising powers and established powers and suggest that this analys…
System and Meaning in East Sumba Textile Design: A Study of Traditional Indonesian Art
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…
Increasing women's representation in the Cameroon parliament: Do numbers really matter
Anglophone Conflict, New Institutions, and Women's Access to Political Power in Cameroon
In several African states, postconflict contexts provide opportunities for the expansion of women's political representation. Little is known, however, about the opportunities for enhancing women's participation in politics during ongoing conflicts. We examine the relationship between conflict and women's political representation in Cameroon, which has experienced conflict in its anglophone regions since 2017. The government has responded to the …
Gender-Balanced Representation and the Erosion of Global Liberal Norms
How will the rise of China and other illiberal regimes affect the behaviour-shaping power of global liberal norms? The paper uses updated dyadic data on ambassadorial appointments to address this question. It focuses on the fate of a global liberal norm on gender-balanced representation. It argues that when powerful international partners discount the importance of gender balance, governments become less likely to prioritise gender balance themse…
Context and Media Frames: The Case of Liberia
There is a growing body of work examining gender stereotypes in media representations of female candidates, but much of this literature is based on analysis of media sources in developed countries, including the United States (Braden 1996; Jalalzai 2006; Kahn 1994, 1996; Smith 1997), Australia (Kittilson and Fridkin 2008), Canada (Kittilson and Fridkin 2008), France (Murray 2010b), and Germany (Wiliarty 2010). The increase in female presidential …
Approach to Arts and Ceremony, East Sumba, Indonesia
System and Meaning in East Sumba Textile Design: A Study of Traditional Indonesian Art
Approach to Arts and Ceremony, East Sumba, Indonesia
Structural Aspects of a Village Art1
This article demonstrates that compositional principles of decorated textiles in East Sumba, Indonesia, find parallels in the formal rules by which major activities of the society are organized. In exploring the implications of this common use of structures, it suggests that this art does not reflect society but that both respond to the same structural principles which are those preferred as intellectual forms by the local culture
Symbols of the organized community in East Sumba, Indonesia
Audiovisuals Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Films on Southeast Asia: Sixteen Films on Weaving. Films on Southeast Asia: Making hemp thread for weaving. Films on Southeast Asia: Preparation of handloom. Films on Southeast Asia: Hemp weaving on a treadloom. Films on Southeast Asia: Batiking a sling to carry children. Films on Southeast Asia: Removing the seed from cotton with a special machine. Films on Southeast Asia: Shaking up and fulling cotton. Films on So…
Audiovisual Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Television Productions: Teacher's Guide, anonymous, no date, 16 pp. Free from Time‐Life Multimedia. The Tribal Eye, David Attenborough Television Productions: The Tribal Eye, David Attenborough
Structural Aspects of East Sumbanese Art
The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia
Introduction James J. Fox Part One: Marriage, Alliance, and Exchange 1. Principles and Variations in the Structure of Sumbanese Society Rodney Needham 2. The Marriage Nexus among the Manggarai of West Flores John L. Gordon 3. Concordance, Structure, and Variation: Considerations of Alliance in Kedang Robert H. Barnes 4. Obligation and Alliance: State Structure and Moiety Organization in Thie, Roti James J. Fox 5. The Social Organization of the Em…
National Machineries’ and Authoritarian Politics: The Case of Cameroon
Why do authoritarian states adopt ‘state feminist’ policies, and what are the effects of these initiatives? This article expands our understanding of state feminist institutions in non-democracies by examining the development of a women's national machinery in Cameroon. It argues that the Cameroonian state has adopted a national machinery because: (1) it provides low-cost international legitimacy; (2) it attracts international assistance; (3) thi…
Regional Advocacy Networks and the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
While there has been a significant amount of research on transnational feminist activism at the global level, many feminist transnational advocacy networks are mobilizing within world regions. The lack of attention to the regional level has created a considerable imbalance in research on transnational activism. This article's first objective is to define regional advocacy networks (RANs) as a collection of individuals and organizations from the s…
Liberia's Election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Women's Executive Leadership in Africa
In November 2005, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first female elected head of state in sub-Saharan Africa. On the face of it, the fact that this important breakthrough occurred in Liberia may seem paradoxical given that Liberia recently came out of years of conflict and is one of the poorest countries in the world. Generally, the advancement of women politically has been associated with the economic advancement of a country (Inglehart and Norri…
Breaking the Final Glass Ceiling: The Influence of Gender in the Elections of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Michelle Bachelet
The article extends the limited literature on women national leaders by providing a comparative study of two popularly elected women presidents: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia and Michelle Bachelet in Chile. Both Bachelet and Johnson-Sirleaf rose to power in situations that lacked the circumstances identified by current literature as mitigating gendered barriers to national leadership: neither woman was connected to politically powerful familie…
Gender Norms and Women's Political Representation: A Global Analysis of Cabinets, 1979–2009
What role does the international diffusion of gender norms play in determining recent increases in women's political representation? We argue that norm diffusion has larger positive effects on women's cabinet representation than on women's legislative representation. We also show that within cabinets, norm diffusion affects low‐prestige appointments more than high‐prestige appointments. We test these arguments using an original database of minist…
The Representation of Women in African Legislatures and Cabinets: An Examination with Reference to Ghana
Why do some countries with low levels of women's legislative representation have high levels of women's cabinet representation? We focus on sub-Saharan Africa to show that countries with high levels of women's legislative representation do not necessarily have high levels of women's cabinet representation and discuss how legislative laggards can emerge as cabinet leaders through a case study of Ghana. We argue that three factors—a conducive insti…
Context and Media Frames: The Case of Liberia
There is a growing body of work examining gender stereotypes in media representations of female candidates, but much of this literature is based on analysis of media sources in developed countries, including the United States (Braden 1996; Jalalzai 2006; Kahn 1994, 1996; Smith 1997), Australia (Kittilson and Fridkin 2008), Canada (Kittilson and Fridkin 2008), France (Murray 2010b), and Germany (Wiliarty 2010). The increase in female presidential …
Will rising powers undermine global norms? The case of gender-balanced decision-making
Will rising world powers tilt global norms in less progressive directions? While there has been much theoretical speculation on this question, few scholars have explored it empirically. This article uses existing empirical evidence to test the extent to which countries compromise their own values to gain favor with influential countries. We analyze the gender of ambassadors sent to rising powers and established powers and suggest that this analys…
Making Institutions and Context Count: How Useful Is Feminist Institutionalism in Explaining Male Dominance in Politics
While the same formal candidate selection rules are generally in place throughout a state, there is often intracountry variation in male descriptive overrepresentation. To explain this variation, scholars cannot focus exclusively on women (e.g., how do women respond to formal institutional opportunities?) or femininity (e.g., how do norms governing appropriate female behavior affect women's odds of being selected as a candidate?). Rather, scholar…
Ratchets and See-Saws: Divergent Institutional Patterns in Women's Political Representation
Women's representation in legislative and executive offices has increased in recent decades. We show, though, that while global legislative and executive trend lines have positive slopes, the two institutions experience distinctive temporal dynamics. When levels of women's legislative representation rise, they tend not to slip back beyond their newly achieved level-women's legislative representation tends to be characterized by a ratchet effect. …
African Women’s Movements and the African Union
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…
Increasing women's representation in the Cameroon parliament: Do numbers really matter
African Women’s Movements and the African Union
Gendering Gamson's Law
Which factors explain variation in the gendered composition of governing cabinets? To address this question, we transpose the idea of proportionality between legislative seat shares and cabinet seats shares from studies of the partisan composition of cabinets to studies of the gender composition of cabinets. Gamson's law identifies a strong association between the proportion of legislative seats a party contributes to a governing coalition and th…
Gender-Balanced Representation and the Erosion of Global Liberal Norms
How will the rise of China and other illiberal regimes affect the behaviour-shaping power of global liberal norms? The paper uses updated dyadic data on ambassadorial appointments to address this question. It focuses on the fate of a global liberal norm on gender-balanced representation. It argues that when powerful international partners discount the importance of gender balance, governments become less likely to prioritise gender balance themse…
Political science (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (8 works)