Figurines and Doyennes: The Selection of Female Ministers in Autocracies and Democracies

Nyrup, Jacob; Yamagishi, Hikaru; Bramwell, Stuart

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“…Loyalty as the main criterion for career advancement points to a pattern in political systems that heavily rely on coercion for their survival (see also Scharp and Gläßel, 2020). This strategy, which generally disenfranchises women, tilts the balance towards men who are perceived “readily available to occupy positions based on credible threats” (Nyrup et al, 2023: 4).…”

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“…First, voters supposedly hold negative stereotypes towards women (Bateson, 2020). Second, because women as a group do not represent a major threat to regimes survival, cabinet makers do not feel the need to entrust them with important positions (Nyrup et al, 2023). Even when gender quotas result in women being appointed to high-salience ministerial positions, there is a risk that over time, following Escobar-Lemmon and Taylor-Robinson (2016), women are again relegated to tokenistic positions.…”

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“…From a women's political participation perspective, the last years have seen, across the globe, a constant and remarkable diversification of political elites (Nyrup et al, 2023). This diversification largely resulted from a surge in gender quotas.…”

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Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas

Ndayiragije,

Vandeginste,

Meier

2023

Africa Spectrum

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Building on original data collected for the period between 2001 and 2020, this article contributes to the research on the effectiveness of gender quotas. It does so, first, by looking into the salience of ministerial portfolios allocated to women, and, secondly, by examining the spillover effect of the gender quotas in positions where they do not apply. We find that the implementation of gender quotas gradually resulted in women being assigned to high-salience ministerial portfolios. Also, gender quotas have produced mixed results in positions where they are not mandated. These findings can be explained mobilising a multi-perspectival argument that takes into account the history of gender quotas adoption in Burundi, the specific political context of their implementation, as well as an interpersonal resources perspective.

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Section: Gender Quotas and Women's Descriptive Representationmentioning

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Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas

Ndayiragije,

Vandeginste,

Meier

2023

Africa Spectrum

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“…As in other fields that have witnessed the emergence of comparative research agendas reaching across democratic, hybrid and autocratic regimes (see e.g. Helms 2020b; Nyrup et al 2022;Teorell and Lindberg 2019), scholars of ministerial turnover have increasingly sought to give additional meaning to their findings by putting them in a wider cross-regime perspective (e.g. Lee and Schuler 2020).…”

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The Comparative Politics of Cabinet Reshuffles

Helms

Vercesi²

2022

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This special collection is devoted to cabinet reshuffles, which are understood as personnel-related changes within the lifetime of a cabinet. Scholars agree that cabinet reshuffles matter in many respects. To begin, they may shape intra-governmental relations, by either intensifying or helping solve cabinet conflicts. Further, they are important instruments for party leaders to promote or demote party representatives, with far-reaching possible consequences for the party and beyond. Last but not least, reshuffles may be used to increase governmental efficiency and often trigger policy change. The ever-increasing personalization of politics has fuelled the public interest in any ministerial personnel-related issues, and turned cabinet reshuffles into events of undisputed political and scholarly relevance. Despite the apparent importance and ubiquity of reshuffles, the international literature displays at least two major flaws: first, a lack of systematic comparison across countries and regimes and second, a strong notional and empirical bias towards Westminster democracies. This collection seeks to overcome these weaknesses and their limiting effects on the knowledge and understanding of key aspects of executive politics and executive–legislative relations. With that aim, it gathers novel comparative research on the different types, causes and effects of cabinet reshuffles in a variety of democratic and authoritarian systems. The theoretical approaches and empirical findings of the six articles featured mark a major contribution to the scholarship on political executives and executive elites in the contemporary world. This introductory piece offers a succinct historical overview of cabinet reshuffles in different contexts, and the study thereof.

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“…años desde seminales trabajos hacia fines de los 80 y 90 (J. M. Martin, 1989;Moon & Fountain, 1997;Reynolds, 1999;Siaroff, 2000;D. T. Studlar & Moncrief, 1997), hasta otros más recientes (Armstrong et al, 2023;Barragán & Rodríguez, 2023;Gatto et al, 2022;Höhmann, 2022;Kroeber & Hüffelmann, 2022;Nyrup et al, 2023), buscando dar claridad a un proceso que acontecía en todo el mundo: el crecimiento de la participación de las mujeres en los ministerios (Annesley et al, 2019;Arriola & Johnson, 2014;Beckwith & Franceschet, 2022;Bego, 2014;Borrelli, 2010;Claveria, 2014;M. C. Escobar-Lemmon & Taylor-Robinson, 2016;Krook & O'Brien, 2012;Stockemer & Sundström, 2018).…”

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2024

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Resumen: En este artículo nos proponemos contribuir al análisis del fenómeno de Javier Milei como un líder emergente en Argentina. Nuestra hipótesis afirma que este fenómeno responde al encuentro entre la antipolítica como un sentimiento ciudadano latente y un discurso político estratégico. La investigación combina dos técnicas, la realización de una encuesta y el análisis de contenido multimodal de la cuenta oficial en TikTok de Milei y cuentas satélites creadas para dar mayor visibilidad a su figura. Observamos que gran parte de la ciudadanía tiene una visión negativa de "los políticos" y que el discurso de Milei construye un mito a partir de su rechazo enardecido a "la casta".

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Figurines and Doyennes: The Selection of Female Ministers in Autocracies and Democracies

Cited by 4 publications

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Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas

Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas

The Comparative Politics of Cabinet Reshuffles

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