The Second Sex in the Second District
The Policy Effects of Electing Women to County Government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6341007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markie Mcbrayer (0000-0003-2899-0926, University of Idaho, corresponding author), Robert Lucas Williams (0000-0001-9705-079X, Texas Southern University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 825-840 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10659129221109144 |
| OpenAlex | W4286489841 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 58 |
Research about women’s representation in county governments and whether women’s representation at the local level translates into different policy outcomes has been relatively unexplored (Holman 2017). Thus, we ask whether electing a woman to the county legislative body leads to different policy outputs, specifically in areas like education, health, hospitals, housing, and welfare. Our dataset builds on de Benedictis-Kessner and Warshaw’s (2020) work on county legislative elections by gender coding candidates, leading to a full dataset of nearly 16,500 gender-coded races for county legislative positions, thus creating the most comprehensive, gender-coded dataset of elections in county governments. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that electing a woman to the county’s governing body does not lead to greater spending generally or on social and redistributive policy. Yet there are specific conditions in which they can more easily advocate for their preferred fiscal preferences. For instance, under commission forms of government, electing a woman leads to increased expenditures on welfare. Moreover, electing women has a positive effect on spending when the county is receiving a greater proportion of revenue from higher levels of government
Commission · Demographic economics · Economics · Government (linguistics · Government spending · Legislature · Local government · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Regression discontinuity design · Representation (politics · Welfare · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Medicine · Public Administration
How Women Represent Women
The Impact of Women in Congress
It Takes a Candidate
Do Women Legislators Matter?
Women in Local Government
Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs
Women as Policy Makers
Does gender matter for political leadership? The case of U.S. mayors
County governing boards
Electoral institutions, gender stereotypes, and women's local representation
Sex and the City
Overcoming City Limits
Moving Beyond Tokenism
Black Substantive Representation in State Legislatures from 1971–1994
Gender Differences in Public Opinion
Determinants of Female Employment Patterns in U.S. Cities
Let’s Work Together
Gender Cleavages and the Resolution of Local Policy Issues
School Board Candidates and Gender
The Democratic Sex
Pushing the City Limits
Do Citizens Apply Gender Stereotypes to Infer Candidates' Ideological Orientations
The Impact of Women on State Legislative Policies
"Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent "Yes
Women Running “as Women
Politics in Forgotten Governments
Mayoral Partisanship and Municipal Fiscal Policy
Marginalization and Mobilization
Institutional Characteristics and State Policy Priorities
Linking Women's Descriptive and Substantive Representation in the United States
Cities Where Women Rule
How Are Political Institutions Gendered
Do Gender Stereotypes Transcend Party
Exploring Gender Differences in State Legislators’ Policy Preferences
Determinants of Collaborative Leadership
Race and Gender Cues in Low-Information Elections
Representative Budgeting
The Impact of Gender Stereotyped Evaluations on Support for Women Candidates
A New Measure of Policy Spending Priorities in the American States
Testing the Accuracy of Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Experimental Benchmarks
It Doesn't Matter
Networks in the Legislative Arena
When Tokens Matter
Stop, Collaborate, and Listen
Men Idle, Women Network
When Are Women More Effective Lawmakers Than Men
Gender Stereotypes and Vote Choice
When Mayors Matter
Gender Stereotyping and the Electoral Success of Women Candidates
The Effect of Legislative Diversity on Agenda Setting
Women's Representation and the Gendered Pipeline to Power
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |