Maria Escobar‐lemmon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Escobar‐lemmon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Escobar‐lemmon |
| SIGNATURE | LEMMON M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 217 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does Decentralization Improve Perceptions of Accountability? Attitudinal Evidence from Colombia
Decentralization is argued to create incentives for local and regional politicians to be more responsive and accountable to their constituents, but few studies have directly tested this claim. We use survey data from Colombia to examine individual‐level evaluations of the degree to which decentralization prompts citizens to view department government as more accountable. We estimate the effect of administrative, fiscal, and political decentraliza…
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…
Does Decentralization Improve Perceptions of Accountability? Attitudinal Evidence from Colombia
Decentralization is argued to create incentives for local and regional politicians to be more responsive and accountable to their constituents, but few studies have directly tested this claim. We use survey data from Colombia to examine individual‐level evaluations of the degree to which decentralization prompts citizens to view department government as more accountable. We estimate the effect of administrative, fiscal, and political decentraliza…
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…
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…
Does Decentralization Improve Perceptions of Accountability? Attitudinal Evidence from Colombia
Decentralization is argued to create incentives for local and regional politicians to be more responsive and accountable to their constituents, but few studies have directly tested this claim. We use survey data from Colombia to examine individual‐level evaluations of the degree to which decentralization prompts citizens to view department government as more accountable. We estimate the effect of administrative, fiscal, and political decentraliza…
Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Decentralization (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Latin Americans (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Legislature (2 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (2 works) · Politics (2 works)