More women than ever before are being appointed cabinet ministers, yet academic scholarship is making slow progress when it comes to understanding and explaining how and why women reach the executive branch of government. Gender and politics scholarship continues to rely on theories developed to...

This paper examines the causes of increasing similarity between House and Senate committees in their oversight of executive branch agencies. Using a panel design, the paper examines the influence of environmental (e.g., public demand and inter-branch relations), institutional (i.e.,...

This paper studies CEOs with overseas experience, known as returnee CEOs. We show that Chinese returnee CEOs are associated with inferior performance, lower market reactions to appointment announcements and an adverse regulatory environment. We argue that CEOs' international expertise is...