Signaling Woman and Leader: Navigating the Double Bind as a Foreign Policy Decisionmaker

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Women Politics & Policy Pub Date : 2021-09-03 DOI:10.1080/1554477X.2021.1956563

C. Burns, J. Bowling

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT The effects of gender on foreign policy decision-making is an understudied topic. While some research has examined the role of women chief executives in conflict, little research has looked at what role women defense and foreign affairs ministers play on outcomes. In this article, we examine the role that women chief executives, defense ministers, and foreign affairs ministers play in both conflictual and cooperative foreign policies. Specifically, we ask whether women foreign policy leaders are more likely to enact foreign policy decisions and whether they will be more extreme in their decisions. Past research posits that women leaders face a double-bind. Women must be both leader and woman while in office. We argue that this pressure will affect the decisions women make in foreign policy. We examine this relationship from 1980 to 2008 and find that women foreign policy leaders are different from men; they are more active in conflictual foreign policy and have more extreme cooperative foreign policy.

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女性和领导者的信号：作为外交政策决策者驾驭双重束缚

性别对外交政策决策的影响是一个研究不足的话题。虽然一些研究考察了女性首席执行官在冲突中的作用，但很少有研究关注女性国防部长和外交部长在结果中的作用。在这篇文章中，我们考察了女性首席执行官、国防部长和外交部长在冲突和合作外交政策中所扮演的角色。具体而言，我们问女性外交政策领导人是否更有可能制定外交政策决定，以及她们的决定是否会更加极端。过去的研究认为，女性领导人面临双重困境。女性在职期间必须既是领导者又是女性。我们认为，这种压力将影响妇女在外交政策中做出的决定。我们研究了1980年至2008年的这种关系，发现女性外交政策领导人与男性不同；他们在冲突外交政策上更为积极，在合作外交政策上也更为极端。

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Journal of Women Politics & Policy Multiple-

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1.80

自引率

9.10%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Women, Politics & Policy explores women and their roles in the political process as well as key policy issues that impact women''s lives. Articles cover a range of tops about political processes from voters to leaders in interest groups and political parties, and office holders in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government (including the increasingly relevant international bodies such as the European Union and World Trade Organization). They also examine the impact of public policies on women''s lives in areas such as tax and budget issues, poverty reduction and income security, education and employment, care giving, and health and human rights — including violence, safety, and reproductive rights — among many others. This multidisciplinary, international journal presents the work of social scientists — including political scientists, sociologists, economists, and public policy specialists — who study the world through a gendered lens and uncover how gender functions in the political and policy arenas. Throughout, the journal places a special emphasis on the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, class, and other dimensions of women''s experiences.