Rob Salmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Salmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Salmond |
| SIGNATURE | SALMOND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rob Salmond is a visiting research fellow in the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles.. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Parliamentary Question Times
Over time, people have been losing interest in politics. Some believe this to be one of the largest challenges facing democracy today. What causes some citizens to be more engaged than others? This paper argues that national-level political institutions are important in shaping the tone of political debate between election campaigns. Some countries have regular, accessible debates between political leaders; in others the debate is rarer and harde…
Cheating Death-by-PowerPoint
We critique the typical use of visual aids at political science conferences and make suggestions about more effective ways to incorporate them into presentations. Our main suggestions are that political scientists should use fewer and simpler slides, and that those slides should contain visually rich information that illustrates a speaker's point without distracting the audience from his or her words
Verbal Sticks and Rhetorical Stones
We provide advice to presenters at political science conferences. Our advice is based on the idea that the goal of a professional presentation is to provide an audience with information it can understand, discuss, and remember. We argue that current presentational norms in our discipline are counterproductive, and we encourage presenters to make their presentations more constrained, less technical, and more connected to the political world outsid…
Bureaucrats in the Headlights
This study argues that the structure of parliamentary questioning affects decisions to delegate authority from ministers to bureaucrats. Open, spontaneous question times where ministers can be forced to account for bureaucratic action publicly and with little or no notice are hypothesised to be associated with less delegation. This is because the reputational risks to ministers are higher in such an environment. Cross-national empirical evidence,…
Making Online News
This edited volume introduces the reader to the day-to-day operations of online newsrooms across 20 news organizations in ten nations. Most of the contributions are tied together not only in their
Welfare Works
This study aims to advance our understanding of why women are underrepresented in legislatures around the world, and what accounts for the wide variation over time and across countries. Scholars generally agree on many of the favorable conditions for women to enter parliament, including, inter alia, proportional representation, leftism in government, and female employment. However, the mechanisms that link women's seat shares to the supposed expl…
Proportional Representation and Female Parliamentarians
This article asks, “What effect does the choice of a nation's electoral system have on the gender composition of its parliament over time?” I find that the electoral system has an important part to play, but previous work has overstated, by factors of between two and three, how much of a difference an electoral system can make. This article contributes an updated nonlinear theory of female representation, an improved dataset on women's representa…
Grabbing Governments by the Throat
This article examines patterns of performance by New Zealand opposition leaders since 1980, concentrating particularly on parliamentary Question Time. I argue that Question Time is an important tool for New Zealand’s parliamentary opposition, much like in Britain and othe R advanced democracies. I show that Question Time, like New Zealand politics generally, has become more ‘presidential’ in recent times, and furthe R show that the parliamentary …
Proportional Representation and Female Parliamentarians
This article asks, “What effect does the choice of a nation's electoral system have on the gender composition of its parliament over time?” I find that the electoral system has an important part to play, but previous work has overstated, by factors of between two and three, how much of a difference an electoral system can make. This article contributes an updated nonlinear theory of female representation, an improved dataset on women's representa…
Welfare Works
This study aims to advance our understanding of why women are underrepresented in legislatures around the world, and what accounts for the wide variation over time and across countries. Scholars generally agree on many of the favorable conditions for women to enter parliament, including, inter alia, proportional representation, leftism in government, and female employment. However, the mechanisms that link women's seat shares to the supposed expl…
Parliamentary Question Times
Over time, people have been losing interest in politics. Some believe this to be one of the largest challenges facing democracy today. What causes some citizens to be more engaged than others? This paper argues that national-level political institutions are important in shaping the tone of political debate between election campaigns. Some countries have regular, accessible debates between political leaders; in others the debate is rarer and harde…
Bureaucrats in the Headlights
This study argues that the structure of parliamentary questioning affects decisions to delegate authority from ministers to bureaucrats. Open, spontaneous question times where ministers can be forced to account for bureaucratic action publicly and with little or no notice are hypothesised to be associated with less delegation. This is because the reputational risks to ministers are higher in such an environment. Cross-national empirical evidence,…
Grabbing Governments by the Throat
This article examines patterns of performance by New Zealand opposition leaders since 1980, concentrating particularly on parliamentary Question Time. I argue that Question Time is an important tool for New Zealand’s parliamentary opposition, much like in Britain and othe R advanced democracies. I show that Question Time, like New Zealand politics generally, has become more ‘presidential’ in recent times, and furthe R show that the parliamentary …
Cheating Death-by-PowerPoint
We critique the typical use of visual aids at political science conferences and make suggestions about more effective ways to incorporate them into presentations. Our main suggestions are that political scientists should use fewer and simpler slides, and that those slides should contain visually rich information that illustrates a speaker's point without distracting the audience from his or her words
Verbal Sticks and Rhetorical Stones
We provide advice to presenters at political science conferences. Our advice is based on the idea that the goal of a professional presentation is to provide an audience with information it can understand, discuss, and remember. We argue that current presentational norms in our discipline are counterproductive, and we encourage presenters to make their presentations more constrained, less technical, and more connected to the political world outsid…
Grabbing Governments by the Throat
This article examines patterns of performance by New Zealand opposition leaders since 1980, concentrating particularly on parliamentary Question Time. I argue that Question Time is an important tool for New Zealand’s parliamentary opposition, much like in Britain and othe R advanced democracies. I show that Question Time, like New Zealand politics generally, has become more ‘presidential’ in recent times, and furthe R show that the parliamentary …
Welfare Works
This study aims to advance our understanding of why women are underrepresented in legislatures around the world, and what accounts for the wide variation over time and across countries. Scholars generally agree on many of the favorable conditions for women to enter parliament, including, inter alia, proportional representation, leftism in government, and female employment. However, the mechanisms that link women's seat shares to the supposed expl…
Proportional Representation and Female Parliamentarians
This article asks, “What effect does the choice of a nation's electoral system have on the gender composition of its parliament over time?” I find that the electoral system has an important part to play, but previous work has overstated, by factors of between two and three, how much of a difference an electoral system can make. This article contributes an updated nonlinear theory of female representation, an improved dataset on women's representa…
Making Online News
This edited volume introduces the reader to the day-to-day operations of online newsrooms across 20 news organizations in ten nations. Most of the contributions are tied together not only in their
Cheating Death-by-PowerPoint
We critique the typical use of visual aids at political science conferences and make suggestions about more effective ways to incorporate them into presentations. Our main suggestions are that political scientists should use fewer and simpler slides, and that those slides should contain visually rich information that illustrates a speaker's point without distracting the audience from his or her words
Verbal Sticks and Rhetorical Stones
We provide advice to presenters at political science conferences. Our advice is based on the idea that the goal of a professional presentation is to provide an audience with information it can understand, discuss, and remember. We argue that current presentational norms in our discipline are counterproductive, and we encourage presenters to make their presentations more constrained, less technical, and more connected to the political world outsid…
Bureaucrats in the Headlights
This study argues that the structure of parliamentary questioning affects decisions to delegate authority from ministers to bureaucrats. Open, spontaneous question times where ministers can be forced to account for bureaucratic action publicly and with little or no notice are hypothesised to be associated with less delegation. This is because the reputational risks to ministers are higher in such an environment. Cross-national empirical evidence,…
Parliamentary Question Times
Over time, people have been losing interest in politics. Some believe this to be one of the largest challenges facing democracy today. What causes some citizens to be more engaged than others? This paper argues that national-level political institutions are important in shaping the tone of political debate between election campaigns. Some countries have regular, accessible debates between political leaders; in others the debate is rarer and harde…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Legislature (3 works)