Does Gender Matter? Female Politicians’ Engagement in Anti-corruption Efforts
Does Gender Matter? Female Politicians’ Engagement in Anti-corruption Efforts
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女性政治家参与反腐败工作重要吗？
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-319-70929-1_9
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Andreas Bågenholm
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作者：
Amy C. Alexander;Andreas Bågenholm
关于性别与腐败问题的研究表明，妇女担任民选职务的比例与腐败程度较低之间存在积极联系。这项研究并没有太多地关注议员的个人层面的行为，但却假设了这种联系背后的个人层面的机制。因此，有必要打开这个“黑匣子”，以查明女性政治家是否实际上成功地参与了反腐败努力，并在更大程度上超过了男性。在本章中，我们调查了在过去的25年里，女性政治家在竞选活动中是否比男性更经常地将腐败政治化。调查结果显示，尽管女性候选人往往更频繁地将腐败政治化，但她们很少能够获得足以直接影响政策的权力。
The research on gender and corruption has shown a positive link between the percentage of women in elected office and lower levels of corruption. This research has not focused much on the individual-level behavior of MPs but has nevertheless assumed individual-level mechanisms behind this link. Thus, there is a need to open this “black box” in order to find out whether female politicians actually engage successfully in anti-corruption efforts and to a higher extent than men. In this chapter we investigate whether female politicians have politicized corruption more often than men in election campaigns during the last twenty-five years. The results show that even though female candidates tend to politicize corruption more frequently, they rarely make it to a position powerful enough to influence policies directly.