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Slocum-Schaffer, Stephanie. and Bohrer II, Robert. "Elite of the Elite? Power and Women’s Appointment to Cabinets in Post-Industrial and Recently Democratized Nations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA, Jan 09, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208362_index.html>

Slocum-Schaffer, S. A. and Bohrer II, R. E. , 2008-01-09 "Elite of the Elite? Power and Women’s Appointment to Cabinets in Post-Industrial and Recently Democratized Nations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208362_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: With the large number of transitions away from authoritarian rule in the late twentieth century and the seeming “triumph” of democratic government, a good deal of recent scholarship has focused on the performance and quality of democracy in both new established and long-standing democratic systems. Recent works by Lijphart (1999) and Powell (2000), as well as Birchfield and Crepaz (1988) and Anderson and Guillory (1997), examine the impact of political institutions in producing variations in performance, looking specifically at how well different institutional designs provide representation and outcomes consistent with the desires of the public. One area of performance where both new and more established democracies vary substantially is the number of women holding positions of power in both elective and appointive governmental positions. The number of women serving in the parliaments of advanced industrialized democracies, for example, averaged only 21% in 2001 and ranged from 7.3% to 42.7% (IPU 2002). The number of women in appointive positions, the “elite of the elite,” shows an even broader variation, ranging from 0% to 50% in the late 1990’s (United Nations 2002, Siaroff 2000). And this impressive span of variation has continued into the 21st Century, with 31 parliamentary or quasi-parliamentary democracies producing a low of 0% women in cabinets and a high of 47% while averaging 22% women holding portfolios overall (Katz and Koole 2002). Only a very few scholars have investigated the causes of this cross-national gap in women’s representation in cabinets. While these studies are helpful in beginning to identify some of the determinants that influence the number of women appointed to cabinet-level positions, they are generally limited to case studies, small-n studies, or focus on only one point in time. Given the increase in the number of women serving in the cabinets of the industrialized democracies during the last twenty-five years, however, accounting for both differences occurring cross-nationally and over time is essential. This paper will therefore examine the determinants of women’s representation at the cabinet level in both long-established and more recently formed democracies. For the former, using a pooled cross-sectional time-series analysis for the years 1994 and 1998, we will evaluate the importance of different factors on women’s appointment to the cabinets of 20 post-industrial democracies, paying special attention to the role that different institutional structures play in producing differing levels of women’s representation in the executive branch. Additionally, we will analyze a broader sample of democracies at various stages of development for the years 1994, 1998 and 2005.

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