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Bush School Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education

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Bush School of Government and Public Service

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Bush School of Government and Public Service

# overview
Dr. Michelle Taylor-Robinson is a scholar of Comparative Politics focused on representation and the consequences for consolidating democracy globally. Current research projects include: Examination of the work that men and women appointed to presidential cabinets do once they are in office and the extent to which women represent women's interests and interests of other historically marginalized groups. Experiments to study how citizens evaluate the capacity of women compared to men cabinet secretaries to handle crisis situations. Career ambition and opportunities for men and women to move up in elected office and in executive branch appointed posts. These project builds on her book with Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens? (2016 Oxford University Press), and her edited volume with Nehemia Geva, The Image of Gender and Political Leadership (2023 Oxford University Press).

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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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Rice University - (Houston, Texas, United States)

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Rice University - (Houston, Texas, United States)

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Rice University - (Houston, Texas, United States)

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Office of Honors Program Teacher/Scholar Award

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Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Distinguished Achievement Award, The

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Office of Honors Program Mentor of the Year Award

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"First Women" and "Women's Posts" Examining the Backgrounds and Credentials of Ministers in Five Presidential Democracies

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The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies

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Party competition, gender quotas, and enhanced inclusiveness in the selection of vice-presidential candidates

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Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty

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Women on the Sidelines: Women's Representation on Committees in Latin American Legislatures

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LA POLTICA HONDUREA Y LAS ELECCIONES DE 2005

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SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)

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Women Cabinet Ministers in Highly Visible Posts and Empowerment of Women: Are the Two Related?

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Legislative Politics in Latin America. Edited by Scott Morgenstern and Benito Nacif. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 528p. $65.00 cloth, $25.00 paper

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The Impact of Committee Composition and Agendas on Women's Participation: Evidence from a Legislature with Near Numerical Equality

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Presidential and congressional elections in Honduras, November 2005

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Term limits and legislative representation - Carey,JM

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When electoral and party institutions interact to produce Caudillo politics: The case of Honduras

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What Should Congress Members Do? Using Survey Embedded Experiments to Study Citizens Clientelistic Expectations in Mexico

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The Past of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies

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Gender balance in committees and how it impacts participation: Evidence from Costa Ricas legislative assembly.

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How Do Candidate Recruitment and Selection Processes Affect the Representation of Women?

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Costa RicaWhere Urban Young People View Women as Leaders

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Dilemmas in the Meaning and Measurement of Representation

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Do women legislators have different policy priorities than their male colleagues? A critical case test

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The Difficult Road from Caudillismo to Democracy, or Can Clientelism Compliment Democratic Electoral Institutions? Exploration of the Honduran Case

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Women ministers in Latin American government: When, where, and why?

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Does Presence Produce Representation of Interests?

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The Meaning and Measurement of Women's Interests Introduction

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The elections in Honduras, November 2001

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Women in Presidential Cabinets Power Players Or Abundant Tokens?

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Approaching Equality? Media Treatment of Male and Female Members of Presidential Cabinets in a Cross-Country Comparison

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Public opinion and conflict in the separation of powers: Understanding the Honduran coup of 2009

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Negotiating Democracy Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

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SHAPING THE POLITICAL ARENA - COLLIER,RB, COLLIER,D

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The Present of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies

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Government Formation and Minister Turnover in Presidential Cabinets, Comparative Analysis in the Americas

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The rules matter: an experimental study of the effects of electoral systems on shifts in voters' attention

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The Image of Gender and Political Leadership A Multinational View of Women and Leadership

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Sex, Survival, and Scandal: A Comparison of How Men and Women Exit Presidential Cabinets

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Women on the sidelines: Women's representation on committees in Latin American legislatures

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Costa Rica: Quest for Democracy. By John A. Booth. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998. 230p. $65.00. - Costa Rica: Politics, Economics, and Democracy. By Bruce M. Wilson. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 187p. $49.95.

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Honduras: A Mix of Change and Continuity

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Who gets legislation passed in a marginal legislature and is the label marginal legislature still appropriate?: A study of the Honduran Congress

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Old parties and new democracies - Do they bring out the best in one another?

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Men Are From Mars, and Women Are From Venus? Political Ambition of Women and Men Within the Legislature

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WHEN ARE JURIDICALLY AUTONOMOUS AGENCIES RESPONSIVE TO ELECTED OFFICIALS - A SIMULATION-BASED ON THE COSTA-RICAN CASE

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Corruption, Accountability, and Women's Access to Power

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Electoral system effects on women's representation - Theoretical arguments and evidence from Costa Rica

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Who Participates and Who Is Seen and Not Heard? Evidence From the Honduran Congress

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Can Formal Rules of Order be Used as an Accurate Proxy for Behaviour Internal to a Legislature? Evidence from Costa Rica

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Do the poor count?: Democratic institutions and accountability in a context of poverty

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Vote-Seeking Incentives and Legislative Representation in Six Presidential Democracies

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Poverty, Participation, and Democracy: A Global Perspective

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The Electoral Connection and Legislative Committees

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Getting to the Top Career Paths of Women in Latin American Cabinets

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FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL INCENTIVE STRUCTURES AND LEGISLATOR BEHAVIOR - EVIDENCE FROM COSTA-RICA

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Vote-seeking incentives and legislative representation in six presidential democracies

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SBP: A cross-national experimental study of attitudes about women in government and Leadership

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Political Science; 4348 TAMU

# organizations[]
Bush School of Government and Public Service

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Bush School of Government and Public Service