The Politics of Women's Presence on High Courts: Bias and the Conditional Nature of Cultivating Legitimacy

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Gender Pub Date : 2021-12-07 DOI:10.1017/S1743923X21000404

Christopher Shortell, Melody E. Valdini

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract While we know that women's presence in the legislature positively impacts how citizens view the institution, little is known about the impact of women's presence on the legitimacy of high courts. We argue that despite differences in public expectations for courts, women's presence on the high court does impact citizen perceptions of legitimacy. However, this effect is dependent on both the level and the type of bias held by citizens. That is, when a person feels hostile bias toward women, the bias disrupts the potential legitimacy that the court could gain. On the other hand, we argue that benevolent sexism does not trigger any change in how citizens view the high court in a democracy. Using evidence from an experiment, we find that the presence of women on the high court has a strong positive impact on citizen perceptions of court legitimacy, though not among those with hostile gender bias.

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女性在高等法院的政治地位：偏见与培养合法性的条件性

虽然我们知道女性在立法机构的存在会对公民如何看待这一机构产生积极影响，但我们对女性在高等法院的存在对其合法性的影响知之甚少。我们认为，尽管公众对法院的期望存在差异，但女性在高等法院的存在确实影响了公民对合法性的看法。然而，这种影响取决于公民持有偏见的程度和类型。也就是说，当一个人感受到对女性的敌意偏见时，这种偏见会破坏法院可能获得的潜在合法性。另一方面，我们认为，善意的性别歧视不会引发公民对民主国家高等法院看法的任何改变。利用实验证据，我们发现高等法院中女性的存在对公民对法院合法性的看法有很强的积极影响，尽管在那些怀有敌意的性别偏见的人中没有这种影响。

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Politics & Gender Multiple-

CiteScore

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.