Gender Differences in Policy Preferences of Legislators: Evidence from China’s National Legislature

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Gender Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI:10.1017/s1743923x23000405

Xinhui Jiang, Chuanmin Chen

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Abstract

Abstract Do female legislators have different policy preferences than male legislators? Despite a large body of literature from liberal democracies and recent studies of electoral authoritarian regimes, this topic has received little attention in the context of single-party regimes. Based on quasi-experimental methods and regression models, we analyze original data from 38,383 proposals introduced during China’s 12th National People’s Congress and test the effect of gender on policies concerning conventionally selected feminine issues and “political stance,” issues that are unique to single-party regimes. The analysis confirms the effect of gender on policy preference across several feminine issues. However, the effect of gender is null on issues concerning political stance. Our findings suggest that while single-party regimes allow gender differences to emerge among legislators on issues that are not politically important, they tend to discourage such differences on politically prominent issues. This study advances the literature on both gender politics and authoritarian politics.

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立法人员政策偏好的性别差异:来自中国立法机关的证据

女性立法者是否与男性立法者有不同的政策偏好?尽管有大量来自自由民主国家的文献和最近对选举专制政权的研究，但在一党政权的背景下，这个话题很少受到关注。基于准实验方法和回归模型，我们分析了中国第十二届全国人民代表大会期间提出的38,383项提案的原始数据，并测试了性别对有关传统选择的女性问题和“政治立场”的政策的影响，这些问题是一党专政所独有的。分析证实了性别对几个女性问题上的政策偏好的影响。然而，性别对政治立场问题的影响是无效的。我们的研究结果表明，虽然一党制允许立法者在政治上不重要的问题上出现性别差异，但他们往往不鼓励在政治上重要的问题上出现这种差异。本研究推进了性别政治和威权政治的研究。

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Politics & Gender Multiple-

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6.00

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5.90%

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期刊介绍： Politics & Gender is an agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on gender and politics and on women and politics. It aims to represent the full range of questions, issues, and approaches on gender and women across the major subfields of political science, including comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and U.S. politics. The Editor welcomes studies that address fundamental questions in politics and political science from the perspective of gender difference, as well as those that interrogate and challenge standard analytical categories and conventional methodologies.Members of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association receive the journal as a benefit of membership.