Michelle M Taylor‐robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle M Taylor‐robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle M |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor‐robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON M M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7350-5876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 891 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives
Political work requires alliance building, but antagonism and divisions dominate legislatures and society in many democracies. How do legislators handle being pulled in both directions simultaneously? We use the anthropological method of ethnography and the political science method of network analysis and show how their combination enhances understanding of cross-party cooperation among Representatives even when such work is not depicted in the m…
Men Are From Mars, and Women Are From Venus? Political Ambition of Women and Men Within the Legislature
Research indicates that women are less ambitious than men to enter politics, but does gendered ambition continue for people in national politics? Using data from the Political Elites in Latin America Survey collected between 2008 and 2017 in 18 Latin American presidential systems, optimal pair matching, and multilevel estimation techniques, we find that women with similar credentials to men are equally likely to want to continue in politics. Howe…
Approaching Equality? Media Treatment of Male and Female Members of Presidential Cabinets in a Cross-Country Comparison
Generalizability of extant findings about media treatment of women in politics is uncertain because most research examines candidates for the legislature or heads of government, and little work moves beyond Anglo-American countries. We examine six presidential cabinets in Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the United States, which provide differing levels of women's incorporation into government. These cases permit us to test hypotheses arguing that differ…
Corruption, Accountability, and Women’s Access to Power
Corruption is sustained by powerful male networks, reinforcing women’s exclusion from politics. Yet, contrary to this conventional wisdom, we theorize that corruption can sometimes increase women’s access to power. Since women are often perceived as “cleaner” than men, where institutions allow heads of government to be held accountable on economic issues, chief executives may use women’s inclusion in high-profile posts to signal that they are cur…
The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies
In this article, Emma Crewe, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Shane Martin discuss the future of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the past, present and future of parliamentary studies, which was held online on 9 June 2021 as part of the Annual Conference of the UK Political Studies Association’s Parliaments Specialist Group
ThePresentof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies
In this article, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, Emma Crewe and Shane Martin discuss the present of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the past, present and future of parliamentary studies, which was held online on 9 June 2021 as part of the Annual Conference of the UK Political Studies Association’s Parliaments Specialist Group
ThePastof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies
In this article, Shane Martin, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Emma Crewe discuss the past of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the past, present and future of parliamentary studies, which was held online on 9 June 2021 as part of the Annual Conference of the UK Political Studies Association’s Parliaments Specialist Group
Party competition, gender quotas, and enhanced inclusiveness in the selection of vice-presidential candidates
Vice presidents have acquired relevance in Latin American politics. We examine how party system change, societal change, and gender quotas affect the composition of executive tickets, incentivizing tickets to be more inclusive of diverse societal groups. Building on theories of recruitment and selection of executive and legislative candidates, we expect that party system fragmentation, an increasingly diverse society, and introduction of a gender…
Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens?
We examine the backgrounds, connections, and credentials of all full cabinet rank ministers in two to four presidential administrations in five presidential democracies—Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and the United States—to determine if women and men bring similar numbers and diversity of political capital resources to the administration. With a few exceptions, presidents select men and women with similar work and education backgrounds,…
The Impact of Committee Composition and Agendas on Women's Participation: Evidence from a Legislature with Near Numerical Equality
Previous studies of women's participation in legislative debates could not disentangle the possible effect of institutionalized gender discrimination from the effect of gendered patterns because of women lacking seniority and leadership posts. Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly offers an opportunity to control for seniority and leadership. The prohibition on immediate reelection means that no legislators have seniority. The country's successful ge…
Do the Poor Count?: Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
Latin America's flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by ensuring efficient economic use of resources, both human and capital, but the widening gap between rich and poor threatened to undermine political stabi…
Sex, Survival, and Scandal: A Comparison of How Men and Women Exit Presidential Cabinets
The process of selecting cabinet ministers often takes place behind closed doors, including weighing the need to balance or manage factions within the president's party and/or coalition partners; addressing demands for diversity in the cabinet, such as appointment of women or other historically underrepresented groups; sending signals about the administration's policy agenda; and enabling the president to have people he or she trusts close at han…
Public opinion and conflict in the separation of powers: Understanding the Honduran coup of 2009
Formal constitutional systems of separated powers often fail to sustain meaningful systems of checks and balances in presidential-style democracies. What conditions support balance in the separation of powers and what conditions provoke instability and conflict? We draw on Madisonian political theory and research addressing the separation of powers in the United States to develop a game theoretical model of inter-institutional stability and confl…
Can Formal Rules of Order be Used as an Accurate Proxy for Behaviour Internal to a Legislature? Evidence from Costa Rica
Scholars rely heavily on formal rules to classify legislatures, but parchment institutions may only tell part of the story about how the chamber works. Behind-the-scenes behaviour may counter-balance or temper the power distribution created by formal rules. To begin examining if formal rules are an accurate predictor of actual behaviour, we analyse standing committees in Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly. We find that despite the formal instituti…
The Honduran general elections of 2009
Honduras: Una Mezcla De Cambio Y Continuidad
Este artículo analiza las fuentes de cambio y de continuidad en la política de Honduras para entender si el régimen democrático esta progresando hacia la consolidación.El presente artículo brevemente expone los eventos más relevantes del periodo 2008.Estos incluyen las relaciones entre el Presidente Zelaya y Hugo Chávez, los esfuerzos de las mujeres y de los afrohondureños para aumentar su representación política y las elecciones primarias de los…
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…
The Electoral Connection and Legislative Committees
This article examines whether the career needs of legislators – to be re-elected or to move on to another political post – allow us to explain the rules governing committee structures and the committee assignments individual legislators obtain. It uses the institutional variations provided by Argentina, Costa Rica, and Venezuela to test hypotheses about committee assignments and committee assignment mechanisms. It finds that incentives created by…
Presidential and congressional elections in Honduras, November 2005
La Política Hondureña Y Las Elecciones De 2005
Este articulo es un resumen de la historia politica de Honduras y un analisis de las elecciones de 2005. Honduras instalo un sistema democratico en 1982, y las elecciones son la manera aceptada para seleccionar lideres. En 2005, sin embargo, nuevas reglas electorales para nominar y seleccionar el Congreso tuvieron la posibilidad de cambiar las relaciones entre el Ejecutivo y el Congreso, y entre dirigentes de partidos y diputados
Women on the Sidelines: Women's Representation on Committees in Latin American Legislatures
This article explores how new groups can be marginalized after they gain representation in the legislature. We use data from six Latin American legislatures to examine the effect of institutional and political factors on how traditionally dominant male political leaders distribute scarce political resources—committee assignments—to female newcomers. In general, we find that women tend to be isolated on women's issues and social issues committees …
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…
The rules matter: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Shifts in Voters' Attention
Vote-Seeking Incentives and Legislative Representation in Six Presidential Democracies
Through the use of an original data set of bill initiation activity in six presidential democracies, we advance scholarly understanding of how the institutional incentives faced by legislative candidates influence representation. We extend and adapt theory, derived primarily from the experience of the U.S. Congress, demonstrating its viability, once assumed constants from the U.S. case are explicitly modeled, in quite distinct institutional conte…
Do Women Legislators Have Different Policy Priorities than Their Male Colleagues: A Critical Case Test
This paper proposes that findings in existing literature concerning the policy priorities of women legislators in Nordic countries, the United States, and Argentina may also be generalized to less developed countries where support for women in politics is minimal. Past studies in countries where women have achieved comparatively high levels of representation report that women legislators show a higher legislative priority on issues concerning wom…
Women on the Sidelines: Women's Representation on Committees in Latin American Legislatures
This article explores how new groups can be marginalized after they gain representation in the legislature. We use data from six Latin American legislatures to examine the effect of institutional and political factors on how traditionally dominant male political leaders distribute scarce political resources—committee assignments—to female newcomers. In general, we find that women tend to be isolated on women's issues and social issues committees …
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…
Vote-Seeking Incentives and Legislative Representation in Six Presidential Democracies
Through the use of an original data set of bill initiation activity in six presidential democracies, we advance scholarly understanding of how the institutional incentives faced by legislative candidates influence representation. We extend and adapt theory, derived primarily from the experience of the U.S. Congress, demonstrating its viability, once assumed constants from the U.S. case are explicitly modeled, in quite distinct institutional conte…
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…
Do Women Legislators Have Different Policy Priorities than Their Male Colleagues: A Critical Case Test
This paper proposes that findings in existing literature concerning the policy priorities of women legislators in Nordic countries, the United States, and Argentina may also be generalized to less developed countries where support for women in politics is minimal. Past studies in countries where women have achieved comparatively high levels of representation report that women legislators show a higher legislative priority on issues concerning wom…
Corruption, Accountability, and Women’s Access to Power
Corruption is sustained by powerful male networks, reinforcing women’s exclusion from politics. Yet, contrary to this conventional wisdom, we theorize that corruption can sometimes increase women’s access to power. Since women are often perceived as “cleaner” than men, where institutions allow heads of government to be held accountable on economic issues, chief executives may use women’s inclusion in high-profile posts to signal that they are cur…
The Electoral Connection and Legislative Committees
This article examines whether the career needs of legislators – to be re-elected or to move on to another political post – allow us to explain the rules governing committee structures and the committee assignments individual legislators obtain. It uses the institutional variations provided by Argentina, Costa Rica, and Venezuela to test hypotheses about committee assignments and committee assignment mechanisms. It finds that incentives created by…
Who Gets Legislation Passed in a Marginal Legislature and is the Label Marginal Legislature Still Appropriate: A Study of the Honduran Congress
This article explores who gets legislation passed in a marginal legislature and what types of legislation it is? Mezey defines a marginal legislature as one with modest policy-making power and little support from political elites. The assumption in Latin American politics is that assemblies are marginal, rubber stamps for the executive. The case of the Honduran Congress is used to empirically test these assumptions. As expected, the executive spo…
The Impact of Committee Composition and Agendas on Women's Participation: Evidence from a Legislature with Near Numerical Equality
Previous studies of women's participation in legislative debates could not disentangle the possible effect of institutionalized gender discrimination from the effect of gendered patterns because of women lacking seniority and leadership posts. Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly offers an opportunity to control for seniority and leadership. The prohibition on immediate reelection means that no legislators have seniority. The country's successful ge…
Public opinion and conflict in the separation of powers: Understanding the Honduran coup of 2009
Formal constitutional systems of separated powers often fail to sustain meaningful systems of checks and balances in presidential-style democracies. What conditions support balance in the separation of powers and what conditions provoke instability and conflict? We draw on Madisonian political theory and research addressing the separation of powers in the United States to develop a game theoretical model of inter-institutional stability and confl…
Who Participates and Who Is Seen and Not Heard? Evidence From the Honduran Congress
One way to examine legislative behaviour when roll-call votes are unavailable is participation in debates. Deputies can publicise problems and modify bills, making the Congress a 'policy refinery'. Studying the Honduran Congress, we find that the deputy who is most likely to be a frequent participant in debates is a lawyer from a prosperous department of large district magnitude, from the governing party and has served at least one previous term …
La Política Hondureña Y Las Elecciones De 2005
Este articulo es un resumen de la historia politica de Honduras y un analisis de las elecciones de 2005. Honduras instalo un sistema democratico en 1982, y las elecciones son la manera aceptada para seleccionar lideres. En 2005, sin embargo, nuevas reglas electorales para nominar y seleccionar el Congreso tuvieron la posibilidad de cambiar las relaciones entre el Ejecutivo y el Congreso, y entre dirigentes de partidos y diputados
Old Parties and New Democracies: Do They Bring out the Best in One Another
The democratization literature suggests a country's chances of successfully democratizing are improved by having an institutionalized party system that evolved before the recent authoritarian period. However, the conditions under which old parties established in previous democratic, quasi-democratic or authoritarian periods will benefit a new democracy have not been explored. If a party engaged in undemocratic behavior in the past, such as milita…
Sex, Survival, and Scandal: A Comparison of How Men and Women Exit Presidential Cabinets
The process of selecting cabinet ministers often takes place behind closed doors, including weighing the need to balance or manage factions within the president's party and/or coalition partners; addressing demands for diversity in the cabinet, such as appointment of women or other historically underrepresented groups; sending signals about the administration's policy agenda; and enabling the president to have people he or she trusts close at han…
The rules matter: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Shifts in Voters' Attention
Do women legislators have different policy priorities than their male colleagues? A critical case test
Party competition, gender quotas, and enhanced inclusiveness in the selection of vice-presidential candidates
Vice presidents have acquired relevance in Latin American politics. We examine how party system change, societal change, and gender quotas affect the composition of executive tickets, incentivizing tickets to be more inclusive of diverse societal groups. Building on theories of recruitment and selection of executive and legislative candidates, we expect that party system fragmentation, an increasingly diverse society, and introduction of a gender…
Honduras: Una Mezcla De Cambio Y Continuidad
Este artículo analiza las fuentes de cambio y de continuidad en la política de Honduras para entender si el régimen democrático esta progresando hacia la consolidación.El presente artículo brevemente expone los eventos más relevantes del periodo 2008.Estos incluyen las relaciones entre el Presidente Zelaya y Hugo Chávez, los esfuerzos de las mujeres y de los afrohondureños para aumentar su representación política y las elecciones primarias de los…
Can Formal Rules of Order be Used as an Accurate Proxy for Behaviour Internal to a Legislature? Evidence from Costa Rica
Scholars rely heavily on formal rules to classify legislatures, but parchment institutions may only tell part of the story about how the chamber works. Behind-the-scenes behaviour may counter-balance or temper the power distribution created by formal rules. To begin examining if formal rules are an accurate predictor of actual behaviour, we analyse standing committees in Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly. We find that despite the formal instituti…
Presidential and congressional elections in Honduras, November 2005
The elections in Honduras, November 2001
The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies
In this article, Emma Crewe, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Shane Martin discuss the future of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the past, present and future of parliamentary studies, which was held online on 9 June 2021 as part of the Annual Conference of the UK Political Studies Association’s Parliaments Specialist Group
ThePresentof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies
In this article, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, Emma Crewe and Shane Martin discuss the present of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the past, present and future of parliamentary studies, which was held online on 9 June 2021 as part of the Annual Conference of the UK Political Studies Association’s Parliaments Specialist Group
ThePastof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies
In this article, Shane Martin, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Emma Crewe discuss the past of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the past, present and future of parliamentary studies, which was held online on 9 June 2021 as part of the Annual Conference of the UK Political Studies Association’s Parliaments Specialist Group
Approaching Equality? Media Treatment of Male and Female Members of Presidential Cabinets in a Cross-Country Comparison
Generalizability of extant findings about media treatment of women in politics is uncertain because most research examines candidates for the legislature or heads of government, and little work moves beyond Anglo-American countries. We examine six presidential cabinets in Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the United States, which provide differing levels of women's incorporation into government. These cases permit us to test hypotheses arguing that differ…
Who Gets Legislation Passed in a Marginal Legislature and is the Label Marginal Legislature Still Appropriate: A Study of the Honduran Congress
This article explores who gets legislation passed in a marginal legislature and what types of legislation it is? Mezey defines a marginal legislature as one with modest policy-making power and little support from political elites. The assumption in Latin American politics is that assemblies are marginal, rubber stamps for the executive. The case of the Honduran Congress is used to empirically test these assumptions. As expected, the executive spo…
Transitions to Democracy . Lisa Anderson
Old Parties and New Democracies: Do They Bring out the Best in One Another
The democratization literature suggests a country's chances of successfully democratizing are improved by having an institutionalized party system that evolved before the recent authoritarian period. However, the conditions under which old parties established in previous democratic, quasi-democratic or authoritarian periods will benefit a new democracy have not been explored. If a party engaged in undemocratic behavior in the past, such as milita…
Who Participates and Who Is Seen and Not Heard? Evidence From the Honduran Congress
One way to examine legislative behaviour when roll-call votes are unavailable is participation in debates. Deputies can publicise problems and modify bills, making the Congress a 'policy refinery'. Studying the Honduran Congress, we find that the deputy who is most likely to be a frequent participant in debates is a lawyer from a prosperous department of large district magnitude, from the governing party and has served at least one previous term …
Do Women Legislators Have Different Policy Priorities than Their Male Colleagues: A Critical Case Test
This paper proposes that findings in existing literature concerning the policy priorities of women legislators in Nordic countries, the United States, and Argentina may also be generalized to less developed countries where support for women in politics is minimal. Past studies in countries where women have achieved comparatively high levels of representation report that women legislators show a higher legislative priority on issues concerning wom…
Do women legislators have different policy priorities than their male colleagues? A critical case test
The elections in Honduras, November 2001
Vote-Seeking Incentives and Legislative Representation in Six Presidential Democracies
Through the use of an original data set of bill initiation activity in six presidential democracies, we advance scholarly understanding of how the institutional incentives faced by legislative candidates influence representation. We extend and adapt theory, derived primarily from the experience of the U.S. Congress, demonstrating its viability, once assumed constants from the U.S. case are explicitly modeled, in quite distinct institutional conte…
Women on the Sidelines: Women's Representation on Committees in Latin American Legislatures
This article explores how new groups can be marginalized after they gain representation in the legislature. We use data from six Latin American legislatures to examine the effect of institutional and political factors on how traditionally dominant male political leaders distribute scarce political resources—committee assignments—to female newcomers. In general, we find that women tend to be isolated on women's issues and social issues committees …
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…
The rules matter: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Electoral Systems on Shifts in Voters' Attention
La Política Hondureña Y Las Elecciones De 2005
Este articulo es un resumen de la historia politica de Honduras y un analisis de las elecciones de 2005. Honduras instalo un sistema democratico en 1982, y las elecciones son la manera aceptada para seleccionar lideres. En 2005, sin embargo, nuevas reglas electorales para nominar y seleccionar el Congreso tuvieron la posibilidad de cambiar las relaciones entre el Ejecutivo y el Congreso, y entre dirigentes de partidos y diputados
Presidential and congressional elections in Honduras, November 2005
Honduras: Una Mezcla De Cambio Y Continuidad
Este artículo analiza las fuentes de cambio y de continuidad en la política de Honduras para entender si el régimen democrático esta progresando hacia la consolidación.El presente artículo brevemente expone los eventos más relevantes del periodo 2008.Estos incluyen las relaciones entre el Presidente Zelaya y Hugo Chávez, los esfuerzos de las mujeres y de los afrohondureños para aumentar su representación política y las elecciones primarias de los…
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…
The Electoral Connection and Legislative Committees
This article examines whether the career needs of legislators – to be re-elected or to move on to another political post – allow us to explain the rules governing committee structures and the committee assignments individual legislators obtain. It uses the institutional variations provided by Argentina, Costa Rica, and Venezuela to test hypotheses about committee assignments and committee assignment mechanisms. It finds that incentives created by…
Can Formal Rules of Order be Used as an Accurate Proxy for Behaviour Internal to a Legislature? Evidence from Costa Rica
Scholars rely heavily on formal rules to classify legislatures, but parchment institutions may only tell part of the story about how the chamber works. Behind-the-scenes behaviour may counter-balance or temper the power distribution created by formal rules. To begin examining if formal rules are an accurate predictor of actual behaviour, we analyse standing committees in Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly. We find that despite the formal instituti…
The Honduran general elections of 2009
Public opinion and conflict in the separation of powers: Understanding the Honduran coup of 2009
Formal constitutional systems of separated powers often fail to sustain meaningful systems of checks and balances in presidential-style democracies. What conditions support balance in the separation of powers and what conditions provoke instability and conflict? We draw on Madisonian political theory and research addressing the separation of powers in the United States to develop a game theoretical model of inter-institutional stability and confl…
Do the Poor Count?: Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
Latin America's flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by ensuring efficient economic use of resources, both human and capital, but the widening gap between rich and poor threatened to undermine political stabi…
Sex, Survival, and Scandal: A Comparison of How Men and Women Exit Presidential Cabinets
The process of selecting cabinet ministers often takes place behind closed doors, including weighing the need to balance or manage factions within the president's party and/or coalition partners; addressing demands for diversity in the cabinet, such as appointment of women or other historically underrepresented groups; sending signals about the administration's policy agenda; and enabling the president to have people he or she trusts close at han…
Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens?
We examine the backgrounds, connections, and credentials of all full cabinet rank ministers in two to four presidential administrations in five presidential democracies—Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and the United States—to determine if women and men bring similar numbers and diversity of political capital resources to the administration. With a few exceptions, presidents select men and women with similar work and education backgrounds,…
The Impact of Committee Composition and Agendas on Women's Participation: Evidence from a Legislature with Near Numerical Equality
Previous studies of women's participation in legislative debates could not disentangle the possible effect of institutionalized gender discrimination from the effect of gendered patterns because of women lacking seniority and leadership posts. Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly offers an opportunity to control for seniority and leadership. The prohibition on immediate reelection means that no legislators have seniority. The country's successful ge…
Party competition, gender quotas, and enhanced inclusiveness in the selection of vice-presidential candidates
Vice presidents have acquired relevance in Latin American politics. We examine how party system change, societal change, and gender quotas affect the composition of executive tickets, incentivizing tickets to be more inclusive of diverse societal groups. Building on theories of recruitment and selection of executive and legislative candidates, we expect that party system fragmentation, an increasingly diverse society, and introduction of a gender…
Corruption, Accountability, and Women’s Access to Power
Corruption is sustained by powerful male networks, reinforcing women’s exclusion from politics. Yet, contrary to this conventional wisdom, we theorize that corruption can sometimes increase women’s access to power. Since women are often perceived as “cleaner” than men, where institutions allow heads of government to be held accountable on economic issues, chief executives may use women’s inclusion in high-profile posts to signal that they are cur…
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