Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies

Verónica Montecinos is Professor of Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny, USA. She authored Economists, Politics and the State: Chile 1958 – 1994 (1998) and co-edited Economists in the Americas (2009). She has published essays on democratization, technocratic politics, history of economic ideas, and gender and pensions.

“This book makes an important contribution to the knowledge base about the role that economic, cultural, and political conditions play in women’s leadership in post-transition democracies, which has been a highly ignored issue. … Overall, this book will be reference reading for scholars working on women’s participation in politics in general, and in post-transition democracies in particular.” (Sema Akboga, Democratization, Vol. 26 (5), 2019)

• Notes on Contibutors Introduction; Veronica Montecinos Chapter 1. Women at the Top: Leadership, Institutions and the Quality of Democracy; Jane S. Jaquette Chapter 2. Global Trends in Women's Executive Leadership; Farida Jalalzai Chapter 3. Gender and Institutions in Post-Transition Executives; Catherine Reyes-Housholder, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer Chapter 4. Cultural Explanations for Men's Dominance of National Leadership Worldwide; Elizabeth Yates, Melanie Hughes Chapter 5. Dilma Rousseff (2011 - ): A Crisis of Governance and Consensus in Brazil; Fiona Macaulay Chapter 6. Michelle Bachelet: Engendering Chile's Democratization; Veronica Montecinos Chapter 7. Luisa Dias Diogo. Gender and Political Leadership in Mozambique; Frances Henderson Chapter 8. Assessing Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Presidency: Effects on Substantive Representation in Liberia; Melinda Adams, Chapter 9. Corazon Aquino: The Reluctant First Female President of the Philippines; Diana J. Mendoza, Jayme-Lao Chapter 10. Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh: Politics, Personality and Policies; Habibul Haque Khondker Chapter 11. Iveta Radicova: The First Female Prime Minister of Slovakia; Sharon L. Wolchik Chapter 12. Challenges of a Post-Communist Presidency: Vaira Vike-Freiberga and the Leadership of Latvia; Laura Ardava, Daina S. Eglitis Conclusion, Veronica Montecinos Index