Doctoral Dissertation Research in Policial Science: Descriptive Representation and Policy Outcomes in Parliaments

本项目评估代表性如何影响政策结果。该项目包括构建一个数据集，即1907-2012年政党类型女性议员数据库，允许基于身份分析政策结果。文献中的一个中心问题是，增加身份群体的数字代表是否会导致群体权利的扩大和群体自由的保护；这个项目寻求这个问题的答案。该项目的智力价值与其在代表性研究方面的进展以及构建第一个跨国家的综合数据集有关，该数据集按党派跟踪议会中的女性。该数据库将有助于回答以下问题：一个党内女性人数越多，女性是否更有可能得到晋升？一个政党中有更多的女性会影响男性和女性选民对女性执政能力的看法吗？这项研究的影响也将超越学术界，为当前的政策辩论做出贡献，讨论是什么推动了权利的扩大、经济的参与，以及更广泛地说，促进了社会的更大平等。它的结论有可能影响希望增加代表性或改善保护权利的法律的国家和组织的决策。该项目的方法和结论适用于代表性不足的群体。

This project assesses how representation affects policy outcomes. The project includes the construction of a dataset, the Database of Female Parliamentarians by Party Type, 1907-2012, permitting the analysis of policy outcomes based on identity. A central question in the literature is whether increasing the numerical representation of an identity group leads to expansions of group rights and the protection of group liberties; this project seeks answers to this question. The intellectual merit of the project is associated with its advances in the study of representation and the construction of the first cross-national, comprehensive dataset that tracks women in parliament by party. The database will facilitate answers to questions such as: Are women more likely to be promoted within a party when there are more of them? Does having more women in a party affect male and female voters' views about women's competence in office? The research will have impacts beyond academia as well, contributing to current policy debates about what drives expansions in rights, participation in the economy, and more broadly, greater equality in society. Its conclusions have the potential to shape policy-making in countries and organizations that hope to increase representation or to improve laws protecting rights. The project's methods and conclusions are relevant for under-represented groups.