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Robert Salmond

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. UCLA

ISR
426 Thompson Street
(734) 764-6313
rsalmond@umich.edu

Research Interests:

Rob Salmond studies the comparative effects of democratic political institutions. His current work focuses on how different methods for holding the executive to account /between/ elections affect citizen engagement with the political process. He looks particularly at differences in Question Time institutions across post-industrial democracies, finding that more spontaneous and rambunctious Question Time institutions lead to increased citizen engagement with politics. He also explores the downstream effects of this finding in terms of policy outcomes and bureaucratic delegation.

Rob also has research interests in the study of politics in his native New Zealand and in the wider South Pacific region, in comparative political economy, and in comparative public opinion.

Rob Salmond joined the faculty at Michigan in Fall 2007. He received a BA(Hons) and a BCA from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and an MA from Iowa.

Selected Publications

  • 2006. Proportional Representation and Female Parliamentarians. Legislative Studies Quarterly (31:2)
  • 2006. Welfare Works: Explaining Female Legislative Representation. Gender and Politics (2:2) (with Frances Rosenbluth and Michael F. Thies)
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