Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in Cabinets - 9781009570473

Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in CabinetsAsia and Europe in Comparative Perspective\nAuthor(s): Amy H. Liu, Roman Hlatky, Keith Padraic Chew, Eoin L. Power, Sam Selsky, Betty Compton, Meiying Xu\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009570473, 978-1009570473\nSynopsis\nWhat explains patterns of representation of women and ethnic minorities in government cabinets? The authors argue governments diversify their cabinets when (1) a minority group and it need not be ethnic is sizable and can mobilize (political competition); and/or (2) the general population believes in and expects the inclusion of minorities (popular norms). The authors test their argument using original cabinet data from Asia and Europe (N=[tel] and a most-similar design of four case studies. They identify the gender and ethnicity of 91,000 country-year-minister observations with consideration of the rank of their minis.