What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have
in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of …

Historically, men have been more likely to be appointed to governing cabinets, but gendered
patterns of appointment vary cross-nationally, and women's inclusion in cabinets has grown …

The politicization of bureaucracy is a widespread strategy to increase the political control of
ministerial departments in parliamentary democracies. It is, however, largely unknown why …

This study addresses a fundamental question in democratic systems: how do government
parties allocate executive portfolios? While extensive research has tackled this question at …

Scholars have emphasized the need to deepen investigation of intraparty politics. Recent
studies look at social media as a source of information on the ideological preferences of …

Este artículo describe y explica la sub representación de mujeres en los gabinetes
ministeriales de Ecuador entre los años 1979 y 2015. A partir de una base de datos inédita …

El artículo analiza el vínculo entre género y poder en las elites gubernamentales del
Ejecutivo Nacional durante las presidencias de Fernández de Kirchner (2011), Macri (2015) …

This chapter provides a history and overview of the empirical methods to study temporal
aspects of political elites' careers. Building on ideas developed by Jean Blondel and others …

Objetivo/contexto: este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar y determinar las causas que
influyen en el Ejecutivo al momento de designar mujeres para la dirección de gabinetes …

In contemporary representative democracies, political competition is not only taking place
between political parties but also within parties. Hitherto, research on such intra-party …