Lisa Baldez
Associate Professor of Government and LALACS
Silsby 302
lisa.baldez@dartmouth.edu
B.A., Politics, Princeton University
M.A. and Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, San Diego
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Recent publications
- Political Women and American Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- "Primaries vs. Quotas: Gender and Candidate Nominations in Mexico, 2003," Latin American Politics and Society 49(3): 69-96. PDF
- "Does the US Constitution Need an Equal Rights Amendment?" coauthored with Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin, The Journal of Legal Studies 35,1(January 2006):243-283. PDF
- "¿Cuánto hemos avanzado las mujeres con las couotas? El caso beliviano," co-authored with Patricia Brañez, Nadando contra la corriente: quotas de género en los Andes, edited by Magdalena León. Bogotá, Colombia: Editores Tercer Mundo, 2005.
- "Constitutional Sex Discrimination," coauthored with Lee Epstein, Andrew D. Martin, and Tasina Nitzschke, Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, 1,1: 11-68, Fall 2004. PDF
- "Elected Bodies: Gender Quotas for Female Legislative Candidates in Mexico," Legislative Studies Quarterly, May 2004. Winner of the 2005 Award for Best Article, American Political Science Association Comparative Democratization Research Section. PDF
- "Women's Movements and Democratic Transition in Brazil, Chile, East Germany and Poland," Comparative Politics, 35(3), (April 2003): 253-272. PDF
- Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Political Women and American Democracy provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research by leading experts in the field of women and politics research. The collected essays examine women in various political roles and provide theoretical and methodological frameworks for understanding existing scholarship and mapping directions for future research.
Research interests
- Gender and politics in Latin America
- Women's movements
- Global gender issues
- Social movements, revolutions and protest
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