Does women’s descriptive representation matter for policy preferences? The role of political parties
Does women’s descriptive representation matter for policy preferences? The role of political parties
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女性的描述性代表性对政策偏好重要吗？
DOI：
10.1177/1354068818764011
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Sofia Serra
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作者：
Ana Espírito;A. Freire;Sofia Serra
尽管妇女在世界各地多个议会中的代表人数不断增加，但我们仍然不太了解她们的存在对政策代表性的影响。本文依靠 2006 年至 2012 年间在比较候选人调查中收集的关于 12 个国家和 87 个政党的未来议员政策偏好的丰富比较数据集，旨在了解政党如何与未来议员的性别相互作用，从而影响后者的政策偏好。我们的结果表明，妇女的描述性代表性对政策代表性产生影响，（i）主要（但不仅是）当特别影响妇女的问题受到威胁时，以及（ii）仅涉及政党尚未确定立场的问题（即未具体化的问题）。因此，有经验基础支持强制少数群体代表来处理政治议程上的新问题。
Although the presence of women has been increasing in several parliaments around the world, we still do not know much about the consequences that their presence has for policy representation. Relying on a rich comparative dataset on prospective MPs’ policy preferences in 12 countries and 87 political parties collected between 2006 and 2012 within the Comparative Candidates Survey, this article aims to understand how political parties interplay with prospective MPs’ sex to affect the latter’s policy preferences. Our results show that the descriptive representation of women makes a difference for policy representation, (i) mainly (though not only) when issues that particularly affect women are at stake and (ii) only concerning issues around which political parties do not yet have settled positions (i.e. uncrystallized issues). There are therefore empirical grounds to support an imposed representation of minority groups to deal with issues that are new on the political agenda.