妇女的政治代表与腐败

IF 1.3 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Manjing Gao, Matthew C. Mahutga
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我们评估了女性立法者的政策偏好在多大程度上解释了广泛观察到的女性政治代表(称为“议会中的女性”,或WIP)与腐败之间的负相关关系。虽然广泛的文献表明,在制品可以减少腐败,但对于如何减少腐败却鲜有共识。一些人认为,这种影响是由女性的心理驱动的——也许女性比男性更亲社会或更厌恶风险,因此较少参与腐败。另一些人则认为,这种效应是由政策偏好驱动的:因为它服务于女性选民的利益,女性促进了社会支出,这反过来又减少了腐败。我们采用中介分析,使我们能够测试社会支出的中介效应,并为替代解释提供上限。我们的研究结果表明,社会支出解释了69%的在制品计划对腐败的影响,剩下的只有31%的其他解释。这些结果对虚假在制品效应、样本组成以及在制品或社会支出与腐败之间联系的潜在内同性的担忧是强有力的。最后,我们将这些发现与关于在制品管理的有益影响的更广泛的讨论联系起来。
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Women’s Political Representation and Corruption
We assess the degree to which the policy preferences of female legislators explain the widely observed negative association between women’s political representation (known as “women in parliament,” or WIP) and corruption. While a broad literature suggests that WIP reduces corruption, there is little consensus on how. Some suggest that the effect is driven by women’s psychology—perhaps women are more prosocial or more risk-averse than men, and thus engage in less corruption. Others suggest that the effect is driven by policy preferences: because it serves the interest of their female constituents, women promote social spending, which in turn reduces corruption. We employ a mediation analysis that allows us to test the mediating effect of social spending, and to provide an upper bound for alternative explanations. Our results suggest that social spending explains as much as 69 percent of the effect of WIP on corruption, leaving as little as 31 percent for alternative explanations. These results are robust to concerns about spurious WIP effects, sample composition, and the potential for endogeneity in the link from either WIP or social spending to corruption. We conclude by implicating these findings in broader discussions about the beneficial effects of WIP for governance.
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Sociology of Development
Sociology of Development Social Sciences-Development
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