Democracy, Development, and Career Trajectories of Former Political Leaders

Baturo, Alexander

doi:10.1177/0010414016666835

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“…The effects of cultural, socioeconomic or personal factors, by the logic of the argument, only influence whether female leaders are chosen. This makes our analyses consistent with the literature on the selection of leaders (e.g., Baturo, 2017;Besley and Reynal-Querol, 2011), as opposed to that of the effects of leaders on various outcomes (Horowitz and Stam, 2014;Alexiadou, 2015).…”

Section: Modeling Female Leadershipsupporting

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When Do Family Ties Matter? The Duration of Female Suffrage and Women’s Path to High Political Office

Baturo

Gray

2018

Political Research Quarterly

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While the percentage of female heads of state in the world has increased to around 10 percent in the 2010s, a female president or prime minister still remains an exception. Recent scholarship has proposed a number of explanations behind this phenomenon, but there exist important gaps. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we use new and comprehensive data to undertake a systematic examination of the differences in the personal, education, and career backgrounds between female and male effective political leaders from 1960 to 2010. We find that female leaders are as qualified as men. Second, because the phenomenon of female leadership is still a rare occurrence, we argue that this fact must be accounted for in empirical modeling. Third, we show that many female leaders tend to acquire the necessary resources, support, and name recognition through political dynasties. To that end, women leaders need to rely on family ties more than men do. However, the importance of such connections attenuates when female suffrage has been in place for longer, and citizens are more open to women in politics.

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Section: Modeling Female Leadershipsupporting

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When Do Family Ties Matter? The Duration of Female Suffrage and Women’s Path to High Political Office

Baturo

Gray

2018

Political Research Quarterly

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“…1.Beyond studying careers in office, some studies also address postministerial careers (e.g., Baturo 2017; Claveria and Verge 2015; Dörrenbächer 2016). …”

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It's a Long Way to the Top: Women's Ministerial Career Paths

Kroeber

Hüffelmann

2021

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Ministerial portfolios that promise high status, broad public visibility, and extensive financial and personnel resources continue to be men's domains. In this article, we shed light on gender inequality in ministerial selection processes by studying the duration from a minister's original appointment as a member of cabinet until he or she receives responsibility for a highly prestigious portfolio. We argue that the time it takes for ambitious politicians to prove themselves suitable for this type of cabinet position depends on their sex and the degree to which the policy area for which they are responsible reinforces stereotypical expectations about their personality traits. Empirical evidence from event history analysis of original data including detailed information on all ministerial careers in 27 European countries between 1990 to 2018 supports these propositions. These findings reveal that even highly qualified women politicians who are already members of the executive face additional barriers during their political careers.

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“…Current scholarship has gone beyond the ‘leaders matter’ argument to examine exactly which leader characteristics and experience matter for survival in office (Yu and Jong-A-Pin 2016), post-office employment (Baturo 2017) or conflict behaviour (Horowitz, McDermott and Stam 2005). Empirical scholars can now rely on the PolEx score to investigate whether leaders' experience affects policy outcomes.…”

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What Countries Select More Experienced Leaders? The PolEx Measure of Political Experience

Baturo

Elkink

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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How can one assess which countries select more experienced leaders for the highest office? There is wide variation in prior career paths of national leaders within, and even more so between, regime types. It is therefore challenging to obtain a truly comparative measure of political experience; empirical studies have to rely on proxies instead. This article proposes PolEx, a measure of political experience that abstracts away from the details of career paths and generalizes based on the duration, quality and breadth of an individual's experience in politics. The analysis draws on a novel data set of around 2,000 leaders from 1950 to 2017 and uses a Bayesian latent variable model to estimate PolEx. The article illustrates how the new measure can be used comparatively to assess whether democracies select more experienced leaders. The authors find that while on average they do, the difference with non-democracies has declined dramatically since the early 2000s. Future research may leverage PolEx to investigate the role of prior political experience in, for example, policy making and crisis management.

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Democracy, Development, and Career Trajectories of Former Political Leaders

Cited by 38 publications

References 40 publications

When Do Family Ties Matter? The Duration of Female Suffrage and Women’s Path to High Political Office

When Do Family Ties Matter? The Duration of Female Suffrage and Women’s Path to High Political Office

It's a Long Way to the Top: Women's Ministerial Career Paths

What Countries Select More Experienced Leaders? The PolEx Measure of Political Experience

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