The Missing Fingerprints: U.S. Women Legislators and International Development Aid

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Gender Pub Date : 2022-09-23 DOI:10.1017/S1743923X22000290

Katelyn E. Stauffer, Yoshiharu Kobayashi, Kelsey M. Martin-Morales, Riley Lankes, Tobias Heinrich, Catherine R. Goodwin

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Abstract

Abstract There is optimism that the growing number of women in political office will reorient the focus of international politics toward more social and humanitarian issues. One basis for this optimism is the argument that women legislators hold distinct foreign policy preferences and act on them to affect changes in policy. However, we know little about gender differences in the behavior of individual legislators on these issues. This study investigates the behavior of individual legislators of the United States, one of the most important actors in international politics, in the context of development aid. Analyzing a diverse set of legislative behaviors in the U.S. Congress, we find no evidence that women legislators behave any differently than men with regard to these issues. Beyond its contribution to our understanding of the making and future of American foreign policy, this study contributes to broader debates about women’s representation and foreign policy.

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失踪的指纹:美国女议员与国际发展援助

摘要人们乐观地认为，越来越多的女性担任政治职务，将使国际政治的重点转向更多的社会和人道主义问题。这种乐观主义的一个基础是，女性立法者持有不同的外交政策偏好，并根据这些偏好采取行动来影响政策的变化。然而，我们对立法者在这些问题上的行为中的性别差异知之甚少。本研究调查了美国立法者个人在发展援助背景下的行为，美国是国际政治中最重要的参与者之一。通过分析美国国会的一系列不同立法行为，我们没有发现任何证据表明女性立法者在这些问题上的行为与男性有任何不同。除了有助于我们理解美国外交政策的制定和未来之外，这项研究还有助于关于妇女代表权和外交政策的更广泛辩论。

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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.