Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998. Affiliated with the Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, American Sociological Review. Areas of research: political sociology, women in politics, social capital.

Recent selected publications

Paxton, Pamela, Sheri Kunovich, and Melanie Hughes. 2007. "Gender in Politics." Annual Review of Sociology 33:263-284. Abstract

Glanville, Jennifer and Pamela Paxton. 2007. "How Do We Learn to Trust? A Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis of the Sources of Generalized Trust." Social Psychology Quarterly 70:230-242. Abstract

Paxton, Pamela. 2007. "Association Memberships and Generalized Trust: A Multilevel Model Across 31 Countries." Social Forces 86:47-76. Abstract Download Paper

Paxton, Pamela, Melanie Hughes and Jennifer Green. 2006. "The International Women's Movement and Women's Political Representation, 1893-2003." American Sociological Review 71:898-920. Abstract

Mughan, Anthony and Pamela Paxton. 2006. "Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, Policy Preferences, and Populist Party Voting." The British Journal of Political Science 36:341-358.

Full list of publications in refereed journals

• Paxton, Pamela. Forthcoming September 2007. "Not All Association Memberships Increase Trust: A Model of Generalized Trust in Thirty-One Countries." Social Forces.
• Glanville, Jennifer and Pamela Paxton. Forthcoming. "How Do We Learn to Trust? A Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis of the Sources of Generalized Trust." Social Psychology Quarterly.
• Paxton, Pamela, Sheri Kunovich, and Melanie Hughes. Forthcoming. "Gender in Politics." Annual Review of Sociology.
• Melanie Hughes and Pamela Paxton. Forthcoming. "Familiar Theories from a New Perspective: The Implications of a Longitudinal Approach to Women in Politics Research." Politics and Gender.
• Moody, James and Pamela Paxton. Forthcoming. "Building Bridges: Linking Social Capital and Social Networks to Improve Theory and Research" American Behavioral Scientist.
• Paxton, Paxton and James Moody. Forthcoming. "Continuing to Build Bridges: More on Linking Social Capital and Social Networks." American Behavioral Scientist.
• Ken Bollen, James Kirby, Patrick Curran, Feinian Chen and Pamela Paxton. Conditional acceptance. "Latent Variable Models Under Misspecification: Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS) and Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) Estimators." Sociological Methods and Research.
• Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra and Pamela Paxton. Forthcoming. "In Principle and in Practice: Learning Political Tolerance in Eastern and Western Europe." Political Behavior.
• Paxton, Pamela. Forthcoming. "Gender and Democratization." in Democratization in a Globalized World, edited by Christian W. Haerpfer, Ronald Inglehart, Chris Welzel and Patrick Bernhagen. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Paxton, Pamela, Melanie Hughes and Jennifer Green. 2006. "The International Women's Movement and Women's Political Representation, 1893-2003." American Sociological Review 71:898-920.
• Paxton, Pamela and Anthony Mughan. 2006. "What’s to Fear from Immigrants? Creating an Assimilationist Threat Scale." Political Psychology 27:549-568.
• Mughan, Anthony and Pamela Paxton. 2006. "Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, Policy Preferences, and Populist Party Voting." The British Journal of Political Science 36:341-358.
• Paxton, Pamela. 2006. "Dollars and Sense: Convincing Students that Statistics is Important." Teaching Sociology 34:65-70.
• Kunovich, Sheri and Pamela Paxton. 2005. "Pathways to Power: the Role of Political Parties in Women’s National Political Representation." The American Journal of Sociology 111:505-552.
• Kenneth Bollen, Pamela Paxton, and Rumi Morishima. 2005. "Assessing International Evaluations: An Example from USAID’s Democracy and Governance Program." The American Journal of Evaluation 26:189-203.
• Paxton, Pamela. 2005. "Trust in Decline?" Contexts 4:40-46.
• Paxton, Pamela and Sheri Kunovich. 2003. "Women’s Political Representation: The Importance of Ideology" Social Forces 82:87-114.
• Paxton, Pamela and James Moody. 2003. "Structure and Sentiment: Explaining Attachment to Group." Social Psychology Quarterly 66:34-47.
• Paxton, Pamela and Kenneth A. Bollen. 2003. "Perceived Quality and Methodology in Graduate Department Ratings: The Case of Sociology, Political Science, and Economics." Sociology of Education 76:71-88.
• Curran, Patrick, Kenneth A. Bollen, Feinian Chen, Pamela Paxton, and Jim Kirby. 2003. "Finite Sampling Properties of the Point Estimates and Confidence Intervals of the RMSEA." Sociological Methods and Research 32:208-252
• Paxton, Pamela, Kenneth A. Bollen, Deborah M. Lee, and HyoJuong Kim. 2003. "A Half-Century of Suffrage: New Data and a Comparative Analysis." Studies in Comparative International Development 38:93-122.
• Paxton, Pamela. 2002. "Social Capital and Democracy: An Interdependent Relationship." American Sociological Review 67:254-277.
• Curran, Patrick J., Kenneth A. Bollen, Pamela Paxton, James Kirby and Feinian Chen. 2002. "The Noncentral Chi-square Distribution in Misspecified Structural Equation Models: Finite Sample Results from a Monte Carlo Simulation. Multivariate Behavioral Research 37:1-36.
• Paxton, Pamela, Patrick Curran, Kenneth A. Bollen, James Kirby, and Feinian Chen. 2001. "Monte Carlo Experiments: Design and Implementation." Structural Equation Modeling 8:287-312.
• Feinian Chen, Kenneth A. Bollen, Pamela Paxton, Patrick Curran, and James Kirby. 2001. "Improper Solutions in Structural Equation Models: Causes, Consequences, and Strategies." Sociological Methods and Research 29:468-508.
• Paxton, Pamela. 2000. "Women’s Suffrage in the Measurement of Democracy: Problems of Operationalization." Studies in Comparative International Development 35:92-111.
• Bollen, Kenneth A. and Pamela Paxton. 2000. "Subjective Measures of Liberal Democracy." Comparative Political Studies 33:58-86.
• Paxton, Pamela. 1999. "Is Social Capital Declining in the United States? A Multiple Indicator Assessment." American Journal of Sociology 105:88-127.
• Bollen, Kenneth A. and Pamela Paxton. 1998. "Detection and Determinants of Bias in Subjective Measures." American Sociological Review 63:465-478.
• Bollen, Kenneth A. and Pamela Paxton. 1998. "Interaction Effects with Latent Variables." Structural Equation Modeling 5:267-293.
• (Reprinted, pp. 125-151 in Interaction and Nonlinear Effects in Structual Equation Modeling, edited by Randall E. Schumacher and George A. Marcoulides. 1998. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum.)
• Paxton, Pamela. 1997. "Women in National Legislatures: A Cross-National Analysis." Social Science Research 26:442-464.
• Bollen, Kenneth A. and Pamela Paxton. 1997. "Democracy before Athens." in Democracy and Inequality, edited by Manus Midlarsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Paxton, Pamela. 1997. "Teaching Excellence: Helping Students Consider Academic Excellence." Teaching Sociology 25:303-308.
• Giuffre, Kathryn and Pamela Paxton. 1997. "Building Social Networks." Teaching Sociology 25:207-213.