The Causes of Gender Discrepancies in Executive Level Government Officials in Europe
What counts as discrimination against women in cabinet level positions? What counts as clear evidence of discrimination? This paper takes a look at the observable information informing these questions. For portfolio holding members of European governments, gender discrimination tends to have a positive affect; women are being promoted over men. Extant gender descrimination is likely to occur at a more base level in society.
When is Political Control of Agencies Manifest?
How responsive are bureaucracies to government officials? Mixed results charactarize the literature on bureaucratic responsiveness. This project looks at ways of modeling the inherent conditional relationship of manifest political control of agencies.