Louise K. Davidson-Schmich

 

Associate Professor of Political Science

University of Miami

 

(Secondary Appointment: Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Miami)

Box 248047
Coral Gables, FL 33143-6534 USA
Phone: (305) 284-2143
Fax: (305) 284-3636
E-mail: davidson@miami.edu


 

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