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Louise K.
Davidson-Schmich Associate Professor of Political
Science University of Miami (Secondary Appointment: Associate
Professor of International Studies, University of Miami) |
About Me
Research in Progress
I am working
on a book length project about gender and political ambition in Germany. Click
on the links below to see selected conference papers stemming from the project:
Gender and Political Ambition in Germany. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, 2008
Gender and Political
Ambition Revisited: What Questions does American Politics Research Raise for
Western Europeanists, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
Book
Articles, Book Chapters, and Working Papers
2007
Ahead of her
Time: Eva Kolinsky and the Limits of German Gender Quotas German Politics,
Vol. 16, No. 3 (September 2007): 391-407.
2006
The
Implementation of Political Party Gender Quotas: Evidence from the German Laender 1990-2000 Party
Politics Vol. 12, No. 2: 211-232.
Searching
for the Origins of Civic Community in Central Europe: Evidence from Eastern and
Western Germany Democratization,
Vol. 13, No. 1 (February 2006): 95-115.
The
Origins of Party Discipline: Evidence from Eastern Germany. German Politics
and Society Issue 79, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer):
23-43.
2005
The
Content of European Parliament Election Campaigns: A Framework for Analysis and
Evidence from Germany in 2004 University of
Miami EU Center Working Paper. Revised version under
review.
2004
How
Parties in Government Respond: Distributive Policy in Post-Wall Berlin in Kay
Lawson and Thomas Poguntke, Eds. How
Parties Respond: Interest Aggregation Revisited, New York: Routledge, 2004. (Reviewed in Party Politics, Vol. 12, No. 6).
2003
The
Development of Party Discipline in New Parliaments: East German State
Legislatures 1990-2000. The
Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 9.
No. 4, Winter 2003, pp. 88-101. Reprinted
in Reuven Y. Hazan, ed.
2006. Cohesion and Discipline in Legislatures. New York: Routledge, pp. 88-101.
2002
You
Can Lead a Horse to Water but you can't (Always) Make
it Drink. With Klaus Hartmann and Uwe Mummert, Communist and
Post-Communist Studies, 2002, Volume 35, Issue 3, pp. 325-352.
Published in German as: Eingikeit und Recht und die Nutzung positiver Freiheiten in Wolfgang Schluchter and Peter Quint, Eds. Der Vereinigungsschock:
Zehn Jahre danach: Eine vergleichende
Betrachtung. Velbrueck Wissenschaft, 2001.
2001
Universalism
and Fiscal Decision Making in Post-Communist Legislatures: The Case of Budgeting
in Berlin. The Journal of Legislative Studies. Winter 2001,
Vol. 7, No. 4: pp. 37-62.
2000
Toeing the Line: Institutional Rules, Historical Legacies, and
Party Discipline in Berlin. German
Politics and Society 2000, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer.
1995
European Elections or Elections in Europe? with
Peter Lange, Il
Politico, January-March, 1995, Vol. LX, No. 1.
Course
Syllabi
UM Courses
Each of the following courses has a web site on the UM Blackboard System where students can
download readings, access assignments, view class handouts, etc. Due to
copyright restrictions, however, these websites may only be entered by students
currently enrolled in these courses.
Page last updated May 6, 2008
Copyright:
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich