Stauffer, KE, Kobayashi, Y orcid.org/0000-0003-3908-1074, Martin-Morales, KM et al. (3 more authors) (2022) The Missing Fingerprints: U.S. Women Legislators and International Development Aid. Politics & Gender. ISSN 1743-923X
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association. This article has been published in a revised form in Politics & Gender https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X22000290 . This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. |
Keywords: | gender, legislative behavior, foreign policy, foreign aid, United States |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2022 12:00 |
Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2023 04:26 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1743923X22000290 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:189444 |