In this week's seminar, André Paris, David Pimenta and Marcelo Camerlo (ICS-ULisboa) will discuss how to measure and analyse profiles of government ministers, focusing on the dimensions of experience and participation. The discussion will draw on the model proposed by Camerlo and Castaldo, 2023.

Paper: Government partisans: A practical typology

Marcelo Camerlo & Antonino Castaldo
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

Abstract
The party affiliation of cabinet ministers is a critical but neglected notion. While its application and theoretical centrality is indisputable in many research fields, explicit definitions are difficult to find, while operationalizations tend to rely on rudimentary categorizations. Departing from formulating a definition consistent with the party government model, we propose a flexible typology to categorize and rank variants of partisans both within and beyond consolidated parliamentary democracies. We show that the new approach can capture important unobserved dynamics well.

The format will be hybrid as usual:  room 2 and zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/97767952630?pwd=dUFmM1FuUkQ0bWozRHgw...