Michelle M Taylor Robinson: 2 books
Women in Presidential Cabinets
Power Players or Abundant Tokens?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Though parity is still rare, presidential cabinets contain more women than ever before. Who are these women and what types of political capital resources do they bring to the administration? Are they new types of political players or very much like the men who have traditionally run the government?...
Do the Poor Count?
Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by...