Worth the Wait: Determinants of Ministerial Appointment in Canada, 1935–2008

Kerby, Matthew

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“…Some authors have shown that women legislators have increased chances of being appointed minister (Cochrane : 73; Docherty ; Kerby ). Women's access to ministerial functions may be explained by the small pool of female legislators and the imperative of visibility; nowadays, it is more essential than ever to have women in cabinets (Docherty : 9, 59; White : 35–36).…”

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Women's ministerial careers in cabinet, 1921–2010: A look at socio‐demographic traits and career experiences

Tremblay

Stockemer

2013

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This article probes two aspects of women's ministerial careers in federal, provincial, and territorial cabinets from 1921 to December 2010. First, we examine whether the socio-demographic profile of women ministers differ from female legislators of the governing party. Logistic regression analysis shows that women holding cabinet portfolios differ from female legislators with no ministerial responsibilities with respect to education, parliamentary experience, and age when first elected. Women legislators elected in Quebec, and more so at the federal level, were less likely to become ministers than women legislators nominated in other provinces. Second, we consider what portfolios women had over time, and how many different portfolios they were assigned to. The results are sobering: women ministers are still largely concentrated in socio-cultural and socio-economic portfolios, and most only occupy one or two of these portfolios. We conclude by identifying avenues for further research.Sommaire : Cet article explore deux aspects des carrières ministérielles des femmes aux cabinets fédéraux, provinciaux et territoriaux entre 1921 et décembre 2010. Tout d'abord, nous cherchons à voir si le profil sociodémographique des ministres femmes est différent de celui des législatrices du parti au pouvoir. L'analyse de régression logistique démontre que les femmes ayant la charge d'un portefeuille ministériel diffèrent des législatrices sans responsabilités ministérielles en ce qui concerne l'éducation, l'expérience parlementaire et l'âge auquel elles ont été tout d'abord élues. Les femmes législatrices élues au Québec, et plus encore au palier fédéral, étaient moins susceptibles de devenir ministres que les législatrices nommées dans d'autres provinces. Ensuite, nous étudions de quels portefeuilles les femmes ont eu la responsabilité au fil des ans, et combien de différents portefeuilles leur ont été assignés. Les résultats donnent à réfléchir : les ministres femmes gèrent encore essentiellement des portefeuilles socioculturels et socio-économiques, et la plupart ne gèrent qu'un ou deux de ces portefeuilles. En conclusion, nous identifions des possibilités pour une recherche plus poussée.

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Section: Review Of the Literature And Working Hypothesesmentioning

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Women's ministerial careers in cabinet, 1921–2010: A look at socio‐demographic traits and career experiences

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Stockemer

2013

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“…[1] Indicative single country studies and comparative analyses are provided by Dumont, 2009, 2015;O'Malley, 2006;Kenig and Barnea, 2009;and Kerby, 2009.…”

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Conservative ministers in the Coalition government of 2010–15: evidence of bias in the ministerial selections of David Cameron?

Heppell¹,

Crines²

2016

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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The article uses a dataset of the 2010-15 Parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) Keywords:Cameron Coalition, Conservative Party, Government Ministers, Ministerial backgrounds. IntroductionThere is a considerable academic literature on ministerial selection within British Government. by Ed Miliband who bemoaned the fact that there were as many Etonians in the Cameron Cabinet as female (HC Deb, 2013-14, 14 February 2014. It was also made by Conservative parliamentarian, Nadine Dorries. Overlooked for ministerial office she accused Cameron of relying on a 'narrow clique' made of a 'certain group of people' and that those people were 'arrogant posh boys ' (Orr, 2012). This paper aims to explore these issues (and others) raised by Miliband and Dorries. The paper is organised around four sections. The opening section considers the literature on ministerial selection within British government in order to position the paper and to identify its contribution to the existing literature. In the second section we outline our hypotheses before explaining issues of data collection and our methods for testing our hypotheses. The third section presents the results and identifies whether our hypotheses were substantiated. In our conclusion we summarise our key findings and relate them to areas for further research development. Academic Literature on Ministerial SelectionOur interest in studying the representativeness of ministers' vis-à-vis the PCP under Cameron stems from a desire to test the media driven assumptions of elitism within ministerial ranks -i.e. the elite-theory driven argument that implies that ministerial advancement is part of a 'selfreinforcing' process, in which the leadership promotes and protects like-minded people from similar backgrounds to the exclusion of those outside the elite inner sanctum (Sandbrook, 2011). This is a particularly pertinent theme to explore as Cameron had pledged to lead a more representative government by committing himself to a target of one third of ministers being female by 2015, and the difficulties that he would experience in hitting this target (Heppell, 2012;Annesley and Gains, 2012, see also Annesley 2014and Childs and Webb, 2012.However, before examining Cameron's record in terms of appointments and dismissals it is important to situate our study within the body of academic literature on ministerial selection. The rationale for analysing ministerial selection, whether scholars are considering ministerial longevity, turnover or dismissals, is that they all engage in some way with the principal-agent debate between the leader (principal) and the minister (agent) (Berlinski, Dewan, and Dowding 2012, pp. 1-3; see also Alderman and Cross, 1985; Dowding 2007, 2010; Huber and MartinezGallardo, 2008;Indridason and Kam, 2005;Bright, Doring and Little, 2015). The principalagent debate intrigues scholars as it provides an insight into the importance of reshuffles, through which Prime Ministers seek to reaffirm their dominance over their party colleagues, and limit the capacit...

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“…À titre d'exemple, une norme implicite veut que le premier ministre du Canada tienne compte de la représentation régionale et d'intérêts diversifiés au sein de son équipe de ministres (Kerby 2009;White 2005 : 40-42). Au Québec, Hamelin et Beaudoin (1967) précisent que, de 1867 à 1967, la composition des cabinets était sous l'influence du gouvernement fédéral, des impératifs géographiques, des groupes de pression et des qualités individuelles.…”

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Le profil sociodémographique des ministres québécois : une analyse comparée entre les sexes

Paquin¹

2010

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En 2007 et en 2008, le premier ministre du Québec a appliqué le principe de la parité femmes-hommes lors de la constitution de son Conseil des ministres. Cette initiative a incité l’auteure à examiner la composition du Cabinet québécois dans une perspective d’analyse comparée entre les sexes. L’auteure constate d’abord qu’il n’est pas exceptionnel d’observer une plus grande proportion de femmes nommées ministres que de femmes élues députées. Puis, un examen des caractéristiques sociodémographiques et de l’expérience politique des ministres québécois depuis 1970 révèle que les femmes et les hommes affichent des profils similaires, mais que les premières bénéficient d’un accès plus rapide aux fonctions exécutives.

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Worth the Wait: Determinants of Ministerial Appointment in Canada, 1935–2008

Cited by 50 publications

References 26 publications

Women's ministerial careers in cabinet, 1921–2010: A look at socio‐demographic traits and career experiences

Women's ministerial careers in cabinet, 1921–2010: A look at socio‐demographic traits and career experiences

Conservative ministers in the Coalition government of 2010–15: evidence of bias in the ministerial selections of David Cameron?

Le profil sociodémographique des ministres québécois : une analyse comparée entre les sexes

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