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Replication data for: Does Descriptive Representation Facilitate Women's Distinctive Voice? How Gender Composition and Decision Rules Affect Deliberation

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Title Replication data for: Does Descriptive Representation Facilitate Women's Distinctive Voice? How Gender Composition and Decision Rules Affect Deliberation
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NUACCP
 
Creator Mendelberg, Tali
Karpowitz, Christopher F.
Goedert, Nicholas
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Does low descriptive representation inhibit substantive representation for women in deliberating groups? We address this question, but also ask if the effects of descriptive representation depend on the decision rule. We conducted an experiment on distributive decisions, randomizing the group’s gender composition and decision rule, including many groups, and linking individuals’ pre-deliberation attitudes to their speech and to post-deliberation decisions. Women’s descriptive representation does produce substantive representation, but primarily under majority rule – when women are many, they are more likely to voice women’s distinctive concerns about children, family, the poor and the needy, and less likely to voice men’s distinctive concerns. Men’s references shift similarly with women’s numerical status. These effects are associated with more generosity to the poor. Unanimous rule protects women in the numerical minority, mitigating some of the negative effects of low descriptive representation. Descriptive representation matters, but in interaction with the decision rule.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Deliberation
Gender
Experiments
Descriptive representation
Substantive representation
 
Contributor Christopher F. Karpowitz
 
Relation Karpowitz, Christopher F., Tali Mendelberg, and Lee Shaker. 2012. "Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation." American Political Science Review 106(3): 533-547.
 
Type Experimental Data