Matthew Kerby
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4097984 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew Kerby |
| PRENOMES | Matthew |
| SOBRENOME | Kerby |
| ASSINATURA | KERBY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7955-1021 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 191 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
No Safe Place
This paper explores the rarely examined experiences of unaccompanied refugee minors in Nairobi, Kenya. Children are thought to comprise up to a third of Nairobi's refugee population, however, there is virtually no data on them. The paper provides a first analysis of a unique dataset to ascertain unaccompanied minor refugees’ experiences of physical, emotional, resource related, and sexual violence. Our research findings indicate widespread violen…
Responsive to whom? Political advising and elected careers in institutionalized democracies
Political advising is an increasingly important stepping-stone for a parliamentary career in many advanced democracies. Not only does this trend inform our understanding of political parties and careers, there is reason to think former advisors may have distinct attitudes compared to other types of elected officials. Using elite survey data from 42 elections in 21 countries, this study asks whether former political advisers approach representatio…
Sex, gender, and promotion in executive office
This article provides the first analysis of gendered promotion issues for cabinet ministers using most‐similar systems design for three “Westminster‐style” governments: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Using individual‐level data and controlling for biographical, institutional, and country effects we find, in common with earlier literature, that women are more likely to be given less prestigious cabinet posts and be assigned to “feminine” port…
Not All Experience is Created Equal
While there is widespread agreement in the ministerial promotion and resignation literature that experience matters, experience has typically been defined as the length of time a legislator has worked in politics or served in a legislature. This approach fails to account for the different kinds of experience legislators accumulate as they progress through their political careers prior to appointment to cabinet. We demonstrate how researchers can …
Far from Home, Far from Safe
Using a unique survey of unaccompanied refugee minors living in Nairobi, Kenya, we report on the determinants of different kinds of violence experienced by children at the hands of state officials. Variation in the types of violence experienced is related to sex, ethnicity and country of origin
Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office
Women are underrepresented within political institutions, which can (negatively) impact policy outcomes. We examine women’s descriptive representation as politically appointed staff within ministerial offices. Politically appointed staff are now institutionalised into the policy process, so who they are is important. To date, collecting systematic data on political staff has proved impossible. However, for the first time we demonstrate how to bui…
Political Staff and the Gendered Division of Political Labour in Canada
While there is considerable research on elected legislators in a variety of contexts, the academic knowledge about their advisors is very limited. This is surprising, given a considerable portion of work attributed to legislators is performed by political staff. Further, political advising increasingly serves as a training ground for future politicians in many professionalised legislatures. We use a mixed-methods approach to understand how the in…
Temporal Methods in Political Elite Studies
This chapter provides a history and overview of the empirical methods to study temporal aspects of political elites’ careers. Building on ideas developed by Jean Blondel and others within their seminal contributions to the field, it begins with a justification for studying the careers of political elites from a temporal perspective. The chapter then illustrates early descriptive methodological approaches before plotting the trajectory of event hi…
The Electoral Consequences of Party Switching in Canada
This article addresses the overlooked subject of party switching in the Canadian House of Commons for the period 1945–2011. We estimate a model that explores how and why MPs engage in the otherwise risky behaviour of abandoning their party labels in a system characterized by a low personal vote. Our findings suggest that the electoral consequences for MPs who switch parties for policy reasons are indistinguishable from MPs who do not switch at al…
Media Management in a Small Polity
Little is known about how elected representatives attempt to manipulate public opinion and news media through their participation on regional open line radio or media straw polls. This article examines the systematic attempts by political actors to engage these media in the small polity of Newfoundland, Canada, where politics is characterized by the hyper-local nature of 590-VOCM radio programming. Our mixed-method study draws from talk radio cal…
Les carrières ministérielles au Québec
Puisant dans la littérature sur le processus de nomination au cabinet ainsi que celle sur les carrières ministérielles et les mobilités qu'elles comportent, ce texte examine l'hypothèse selon laquelle le taux de promotion et de rétrogradation ministérielles à l'intérieur d'un cabinet diffère pour les femmes et les hommes. Afin de vérifier cette hypothèse, nous avons constitué une base de données qui intègre les quelques deux cents personnes qui o…
Party Policy Positions in Newfoundland and Labrador
In this article, we present the estimates of the party policy positions derived from two surveys: an expert survey and a voter survey, which were conducted in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador immediately prior to the October 2011 provincial election. The experts and the sample of voters were asked to situate the major political parties on eight policy dimensions and to rank the importance of each policy area. The results of the …
The determinants of voluntary judicial resignation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
This article compares supreme and high court judicial turnover with respect to voluntary exits and retirements in three Westminster parliamentary democracies, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, for the period 1970-2012. The findings of an event history model indicate that judges who author large numbers of opinions in a given year are likely to stay longer, while those who dissent from their colleagues frequently are more likely to exit early. I…
It's Not You, It's Me
The Canadian federal parliament is unique among Westminster parliamentary democracies due to the unusually high level of voluntary and involuntary MP turnover that occurs at each general election. This article builds on existing research to test the hypothesis that the MP career duration is related to MPs' expectations about parliamentary roles, insofar as voluntary turnover is concerned. Data on MPs drawn from historical records collected by the…
Constituency Influence on ‘Constituency Members
The systematic study of parliamentary questions, their strategic uses and their consequences remains largely unexplored by political scientists. Drawing on the wider theoretical literature on political roles and political representation, this research examines the relationship between parliamentary questions and political roles in Canada. Using data compiled from the 34th–37th Canadian federal parliaments, a negative binomial regression model of …
Combining the Hazards of Ministerial Appointment and Ministerial Exit in the Canadian Federal Cabinet
The Canadian federal cabinet stands out among Westminster parliamentary democracies because of the large number of first-time ministers who are appointed to cabinet without any previous parliamentary or political experience. Several explanations have been put forward to account for this peculiarity but no attempt has been made to examine how Canadian prime ministers overcome the information deficit associated with appointing ministers with no exp…
The audience is listening
The Canada–EU Turbot War of 1995 and the Cybernetic Model of Decision-Making
This paper examines how and why in March 1995 certain elements of the Canadian government decided to take unilateral forceful action against foreign fishing off the Grand Banks and go against a long tradition of cooperation and multilateralism. In particular, it will address to what extent existing models of decision-making (in particular rational and bureaucratic models) adequately explain the process that went on in Ottawa at this time. The fin…
Worth the Wait
The subject of ministerial career paths is neglected in the Canadian political science canon. The existing literature, data and methods are for the most part descriptive and require updating. This article addresses this deficit by focusing on the topic of ministerial appointments in the Canadian federal parliament. An event history model is developed to estimate the “hazard” of ministerial appointment for all government party members of Parliamen…
Chronicle of a death foretold? understanding the decline of fine gael
Since its highpoint in the early 1980s, when under Garret FitzGerald, Fine Gael received almost 40 per cent of the first preference vote and took the party to within five seats of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael's electoral support has declined significantly and steadily to a stage where in 2002 they received little over 20 per cent of the vote. We examine some hypothesised causes of this decline, including the effect of the arrival of the PDs, and Irelan…
Policy Scandals
An abstract 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
Worth the Wait
The subject of ministerial career paths is neglected in the Canadian political science canon. The existing literature, data and methods are for the most part descriptive and require updating. This article addresses this deficit by focusing on the topic of ministerial appointments in the Canadian federal parliament. An event history model is developed to estimate the “hazard” of ministerial appointment for all government party members of Parliamen…
It's Not You, It's Me
The Canadian federal parliament is unique among Westminster parliamentary democracies due to the unusually high level of voluntary and involuntary MP turnover that occurs at each general election. This article builds on existing research to test the hypothesis that the MP career duration is related to MPs' expectations about parliamentary roles, insofar as voluntary turnover is concerned. Data on MPs drawn from historical records collected by the…
Constituency Influence on ‘Constituency Members
The systematic study of parliamentary questions, their strategic uses and their consequences remains largely unexplored by political scientists. Drawing on the wider theoretical literature on political roles and political representation, this research examines the relationship between parliamentary questions and political roles in Canada. Using data compiled from the 34th–37th Canadian federal parliaments, a negative binomial regression model of …
Sex, gender, and promotion in executive office
This article provides the first analysis of gendered promotion issues for cabinet ministers using most‐similar systems design for three “Westminster‐style” governments: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Using individual‐level data and controlling for biographical, institutional, and country effects we find, in common with earlier literature, that women are more likely to be given less prestigious cabinet posts and be assigned to “feminine” port…
Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office
Women are underrepresented within political institutions, which can (negatively) impact policy outcomes. We examine women’s descriptive representation as politically appointed staff within ministerial offices. Politically appointed staff are now institutionalised into the policy process, so who they are is important. To date, collecting systematic data on political staff has proved impossible. However, for the first time we demonstrate how to bui…
The Electoral Consequences of Party Switching in Canada
This article addresses the overlooked subject of party switching in the Canadian House of Commons for the period 1945–2011. We estimate a model that explores how and why MPs engage in the otherwise risky behaviour of abandoning their party labels in a system characterized by a low personal vote. Our findings suggest that the electoral consequences for MPs who switch parties for policy reasons are indistinguishable from MPs who do not switch at al…
Combining the Hazards of Ministerial Appointment and Ministerial Exit in the Canadian Federal Cabinet
The Canadian federal cabinet stands out among Westminster parliamentary democracies because of the large number of first-time ministers who are appointed to cabinet without any previous parliamentary or political experience. Several explanations have been put forward to account for this peculiarity but no attempt has been made to examine how Canadian prime ministers overcome the information deficit associated with appointing ministers with no exp…
Not All Experience is Created Equal
While there is widespread agreement in the ministerial promotion and resignation literature that experience matters, experience has typically been defined as the length of time a legislator has worked in politics or served in a legislature. This approach fails to account for the different kinds of experience legislators accumulate as they progress through their political careers prior to appointment to cabinet. We demonstrate how researchers can …
Political Staff and the Gendered Division of Political Labour in Canada
While there is considerable research on elected legislators in a variety of contexts, the academic knowledge about their advisors is very limited. This is surprising, given a considerable portion of work attributed to legislators is performed by political staff. Further, political advising increasingly serves as a training ground for future politicians in many professionalised legislatures. We use a mixed-methods approach to understand how the in…
Chronicle of a death foretold? understanding the decline of fine gael
Since its highpoint in the early 1980s, when under Garret FitzGerald, Fine Gael received almost 40 per cent of the first preference vote and took the party to within five seats of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael's electoral support has declined significantly and steadily to a stage where in 2002 they received little over 20 per cent of the vote. We examine some hypothesised causes of this decline, including the effect of the arrival of the PDs, and Irelan…
Responsive to whom? Political advising and elected careers in institutionalized democracies
Political advising is an increasingly important stepping-stone for a parliamentary career in many advanced democracies. Not only does this trend inform our understanding of political parties and careers, there is reason to think former advisors may have distinct attitudes compared to other types of elected officials. Using elite survey data from 42 elections in 21 countries, this study asks whether former political advisers approach representatio…
The determinants of voluntary judicial resignation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
This article compares supreme and high court judicial turnover with respect to voluntary exits and retirements in three Westminster parliamentary democracies, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, for the period 1970-2012. The findings of an event history model indicate that judges who author large numbers of opinions in a given year are likely to stay longer, while those who dissent from their colleagues frequently are more likely to exit early. I…
Media Management in a Small Polity
Little is known about how elected representatives attempt to manipulate public opinion and news media through their participation on regional open line radio or media straw polls. This article examines the systematic attempts by political actors to engage these media in the small polity of Newfoundland, Canada, where politics is characterized by the hyper-local nature of 590-VOCM radio programming. Our mixed-method study draws from talk radio cal…
Les carrières ministérielles au Québec
Puisant dans la littérature sur le processus de nomination au cabinet ainsi que celle sur les carrières ministérielles et les mobilités qu'elles comportent, ce texte examine l'hypothèse selon laquelle le taux de promotion et de rétrogradation ministérielles à l'intérieur d'un cabinet diffère pour les femmes et les hommes. Afin de vérifier cette hypothèse, nous avons constitué une base de données qui intègre les quelques deux cents personnes qui o…
Far from Home, Far from Safe
Using a unique survey of unaccompanied refugee minors living in Nairobi, Kenya, we report on the determinants of different kinds of violence experienced by children at the hands of state officials. Variation in the types of violence experienced is related to sex, ethnicity and country of origin
Policy Scandals
An abstract 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
Policy Scandals
An abstract 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
Chronicle of a death foretold? understanding the decline of fine gael
Since its highpoint in the early 1980s, when under Garret FitzGerald, Fine Gael received almost 40 per cent of the first preference vote and took the party to within five seats of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael's electoral support has declined significantly and steadily to a stage where in 2002 they received little over 20 per cent of the vote. We examine some hypothesised causes of this decline, including the effect of the arrival of the PDs, and Irelan…
The Canada–EU Turbot War of 1995 and the Cybernetic Model of Decision-Making
This paper examines how and why in March 1995 certain elements of the Canadian government decided to take unilateral forceful action against foreign fishing off the Grand Banks and go against a long tradition of cooperation and multilateralism. In particular, it will address to what extent existing models of decision-making (in particular rational and bureaucratic models) adequately explain the process that went on in Ottawa at this time. The fin…
Worth the Wait
The subject of ministerial career paths is neglected in the Canadian political science canon. The existing literature, data and methods are for the most part descriptive and require updating. This article addresses this deficit by focusing on the topic of ministerial appointments in the Canadian federal parliament. An event history model is developed to estimate the “hazard” of ministerial appointment for all government party members of Parliamen…
The audience is listening
It's Not You, It's Me
The Canadian federal parliament is unique among Westminster parliamentary democracies due to the unusually high level of voluntary and involuntary MP turnover that occurs at each general election. This article builds on existing research to test the hypothesis that the MP career duration is related to MPs' expectations about parliamentary roles, insofar as voluntary turnover is concerned. Data on MPs drawn from historical records collected by the…
Constituency Influence on ‘Constituency Members
The systematic study of parliamentary questions, their strategic uses and their consequences remains largely unexplored by political scientists. Drawing on the wider theoretical literature on political roles and political representation, this research examines the relationship between parliamentary questions and political roles in Canada. Using data compiled from the 34th–37th Canadian federal parliaments, a negative binomial regression model of …
Combining the Hazards of Ministerial Appointment and Ministerial Exit in the Canadian Federal Cabinet
The Canadian federal cabinet stands out among Westminster parliamentary democracies because of the large number of first-time ministers who are appointed to cabinet without any previous parliamentary or political experience. Several explanations have been put forward to account for this peculiarity but no attempt has been made to examine how Canadian prime ministers overcome the information deficit associated with appointing ministers with no exp…
Party Policy Positions in Newfoundland and Labrador
In this article, we present the estimates of the party policy positions derived from two surveys: an expert survey and a voter survey, which were conducted in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador immediately prior to the October 2011 provincial election. The experts and the sample of voters were asked to situate the major political parties on eight policy dimensions and to rank the importance of each policy area. The results of the …
The determinants of voluntary judicial resignation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
This article compares supreme and high court judicial turnover with respect to voluntary exits and retirements in three Westminster parliamentary democracies, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, for the period 1970-2012. The findings of an event history model indicate that judges who author large numbers of opinions in a given year are likely to stay longer, while those who dissent from their colleagues frequently are more likely to exit early. I…
Media Management in a Small Polity
Little is known about how elected representatives attempt to manipulate public opinion and news media through their participation on regional open line radio or media straw polls. This article examines the systematic attempts by political actors to engage these media in the small polity of Newfoundland, Canada, where politics is characterized by the hyper-local nature of 590-VOCM radio programming. Our mixed-method study draws from talk radio cal…
Les carrières ministérielles au Québec
Puisant dans la littérature sur le processus de nomination au cabinet ainsi que celle sur les carrières ministérielles et les mobilités qu'elles comportent, ce texte examine l'hypothèse selon laquelle le taux de promotion et de rétrogradation ministérielles à l'intérieur d'un cabinet diffère pour les femmes et les hommes. Afin de vérifier cette hypothèse, nous avons constitué une base de données qui intègre les quelques deux cents personnes qui o…
Temporal Methods in Political Elite Studies
This chapter provides a history and overview of the empirical methods to study temporal aspects of political elites’ careers. Building on ideas developed by Jean Blondel and others within their seminal contributions to the field, it begins with a justification for studying the careers of political elites from a temporal perspective. The chapter then illustrates early descriptive methodological approaches before plotting the trajectory of event hi…
The Electoral Consequences of Party Switching in Canada
This article addresses the overlooked subject of party switching in the Canadian House of Commons for the period 1945–2011. We estimate a model that explores how and why MPs engage in the otherwise risky behaviour of abandoning their party labels in a system characterized by a low personal vote. Our findings suggest that the electoral consequences for MPs who switch parties for policy reasons are indistinguishable from MPs who do not switch at al…
Political Staff and the Gendered Division of Political Labour in Canada
While there is considerable research on elected legislators in a variety of contexts, the academic knowledge about their advisors is very limited. This is surprising, given a considerable portion of work attributed to legislators is performed by political staff. Further, political advising increasingly serves as a training ground for future politicians in many professionalised legislatures. We use a mixed-methods approach to understand how the in…
Far from Home, Far from Safe
Using a unique survey of unaccompanied refugee minors living in Nairobi, Kenya, we report on the determinants of different kinds of violence experienced by children at the hands of state officials. Variation in the types of violence experienced is related to sex, ethnicity and country of origin
Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office
Women are underrepresented within political institutions, which can (negatively) impact policy outcomes. We examine women’s descriptive representation as politically appointed staff within ministerial offices. Politically appointed staff are now institutionalised into the policy process, so who they are is important. To date, collecting systematic data on political staff has proved impossible. However, for the first time we demonstrate how to bui…
Not All Experience is Created Equal
While there is widespread agreement in the ministerial promotion and resignation literature that experience matters, experience has typically been defined as the length of time a legislator has worked in politics or served in a legislature. This approach fails to account for the different kinds of experience legislators accumulate as they progress through their political careers prior to appointment to cabinet. We demonstrate how researchers can …
Responsive to whom? Political advising and elected careers in institutionalized democracies
Political advising is an increasingly important stepping-stone for a parliamentary career in many advanced democracies. Not only does this trend inform our understanding of political parties and careers, there is reason to think former advisors may have distinct attitudes compared to other types of elected officials. Using elite survey data from 42 elections in 21 countries, this study asks whether former political advisers approach representatio…
Sex, gender, and promotion in executive office
This article provides the first analysis of gendered promotion issues for cabinet ministers using most‐similar systems design for three “Westminster‐style” governments: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Using individual‐level data and controlling for biographical, institutional, and country effects we find, in common with earlier literature, that women are more likely to be given less prestigious cabinet posts and be assigned to “feminine” port…
No Safe Place
This paper explores the rarely examined experiences of unaccompanied refugee minors in Nairobi, Kenya. Children are thought to comprise up to a third of Nairobi's refugee population, however, there is virtually no data on them. The paper provides a first analysis of a unique dataset to ascertain unaccompanied minor refugees’ experiences of physical, emotional, resource related, and sexual violence. Our research findings indicate widespread violen…
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