Women as Leaders, Policy-Makers, & Symbols: Interviewing Cabinet Ministers
With the support of NSF I've am interviewing current and former cabinet ministers, their staff and the bureaucrats who support them.
In addition to conducting large-N cross-national research on women's access to cabinets, I augment my research with interview and archival data from a series case studies that allow us to further examine the selection of female ministers and the policy consequences of their appointments. Our case selection focuses on sequentially appointed ministers. That is, we identified countries in which a man and a woman were sequentially appointed— under the same executive in the same term—to oversee the same portfolio. With a focus on Defense, Foreign Affairs, Interior/Home Affairs, and Finance, we compare men’s and women’s appointments in these cases and carefully trace the adoption, implementation, and enforcement of (gender equality) policies by these ministers. Our focus on sequential appointments allows us to hold a number of important country, political, and temporal factors constant. Among the subset of countries with sequential appointments, we sought out cases that maximized the number of portfolios we could study, while also exemplifying the mechanisms underlying our theory about women’s access to the inner cabinet and providing regional variation. |
Overview
Spain
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Sub-national Fieldwork in Argentina
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FIELDWORK SUMMARY
CHAMBERS VISITED: 27 legislative chambers
PROVINCES VISITED: 19 Argentine Provinces ELITE INTERVIEWS: Over 200 interviews
DATA: I collected several types of data at the provincial level:
FIELDWORK FUNDING: National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research Award SES-1851407; SES-1851457 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant SES-0921374 Ora N. Arnold Fellowship for Latin American Research Rice University School of Social Science Dissertation Research Improvement Grant University of Kentucky, College of Arts and Sciences. Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, 2013. VISITS TO ARGENTINA:
San Luis
Córdoba
Salta
Capital Federal
Corrientes
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