Pamela Paxton

Pamela Paxton is Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Ohio State University. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Economics and Sociology and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is affiliated with the Mershon Center for International Security, the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, and has consulted for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She is the...See more

Pamela Paxton is Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Ohio State University. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Economics and Sociology and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is affiliated with the Mershon Center for International Security, the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, and has consulted for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on women in politics focused on statistical models of women's parliamentary representation. Her research has appeared in a variety of journals, including the "American Sociological Review", the "American Journal of Sociology", "Social Forces", "Comparative Politics", the "British Journal of Political Science", and "Studies in International Comparative Development". Her current work investigates women's inclusion into parliamentary bodies in over 150 countries from 1893 to 2003. She lives with her husband, Paul von Hippel, in Columbus, Ohio. See less