Liam Swiss
Memorial University of Newfoundland
38 Papers
83 Citations
Liam Swiss is an academic researcher from Memorial University of Newfoundland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Globalization & Human rights. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 38 publications. Previous affiliations of Liam Swiss include University of Duisburg-Essen & St. John's University.
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Papers
Resolving the Democracy Paradox: Democratization and Women’s Legislative Representation in Developing Nations, 1975 to 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how variations in the democratization process, including pre-transition legacies, historical experiences with elections, the global context of transition, and posttransition democratic freedoms and quotas, affect women's representation in developing nations.
Father–Child Contact After Separation: The Influence of Living Arrangements
Liam Swiss,Céline Le Bourdais +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of sociodemographic and attitudinal factors on the amount of contact between fathers and their children following a union dissolution was explored using fathers' reports on a sample of 859 children from newly available survey data.
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Peace Accords and the Adoption of Electoral Quotas for Women in the Developing World, 1990-2006
Miriam J. Anderson,Liam Swiss +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role played by women's involvement in post-conflict transition, peace processes, and quota adoption in Rwanda's parliament and find that women's participation has been identified as a key determinant of more beneficial posttransition outcomes for women.
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Security Sector Reform and Development Assistance: Explaining the Diffusion of Policy Priorities among Donor Agencies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a world society theoretical framework to examine the recent trend among foreign aid donors to focus on security sector reform as an aid priority, and find that the extent to which the securitysector reform agenda is integrated into donor policy and programs is mediated by catalytic policy processes linked to intergovernmental organizations and the degree of donor agency autonomy from the rest of government.
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Donor proliferation to what ends? New donor countries and the search for legitimacy
Nilima Gulrajani,Liam Swiss +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines the motivations and performance of New Donor Countries (NDCs) and draws on theories of no-no-no theory for aid fatigue in the Global North, concluding that despite aid fatigue, the number of donor states continues to grow.
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