Do Women Politicians Know More about Women’s Policy Preferences? Evidence from Canada

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Gender Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI:10.1017/s1743923x24000060

Susan Franceschet, Jack Lucas, Erica Rayment

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Abstract

This study draws together theories of women’s substantive representation and research on politicians’ knowledge of constituent preferences. We ask whether politicians are better at predicting their constituents’ policy preferences when they share the same gender. In doing so, we contribute to knowledge about the mechanisms underlying substantive representation. Using original surveys of 3,750 Canadians and 867 elected politicians, we test whether politicians correctly perceive gender gaps in their constituents’ policy preferences and whether women politicians are better at correctly identifying the policy preferences of women constituents. Contrary to expectations from previous research, we do not find elected women to be better at predicting the preferences of women constituents. Instead, we find that all politicians — regardless of their gender — perform better when predicting women’s policy preferences and worse when predicting men’s preferences. The gender of the constituent matters more than the gender of the politician.

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女政治家更了解女性的政策偏好吗？来自加拿大的证据

本研究将女性实质性代表理论与政治家对选民偏好的了解研究相结合。我们的问题是，当政治家的性别相同时，他们是否更善于预测选民的政策偏好。在此过程中，我们对实质性代表权的内在机制做出了贡献。通过对 3,750 名加拿大人和 867 名民选政治家的原始调查，我们检验了政治家是否正确认识到其选民政策偏好中的性别差距，以及女性政治家是否更善于正确识别女性选民的政策偏好。与以往研究的预期相反，我们并没有发现当选女性更善于预测女性选民的偏好。相反，我们发现所有政治家--无论其性别--在预测女性政策偏好时表现更好，而在预测男性偏好时表现更差。选民的性别比政治家的性别更重要。

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Politics & Gender Multiple-

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6.00

自引率

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.