TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender and Politics in Northeast Asia
T2 - Legislative Patterns and Substantive Representation in Korea and Taiwan
AU - Shim, Jaemin
N1 - Funding Information:
The author wants to extend his gratitude to Elena Korshenko, Margarita Est?vez-Abe, Yuki Tsuji, Diana Burlacu, Lih rong Wang, Gregory Noble, and Dafydd Fell for helpful feedback. The suggestions of the two anonymous reviewers were particularly helpful. The research also benefited from presenting findings at Department of Social Work at the National Taiwan University, European Political Science Association conference, Institute of the Social Science at the University of Tokyo, and Centre of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies.
PY - 2021/4/3
Y1 - 2021/4/3
N2 - The article examines the conditions under which female legislators are more likely to act on behalf of female electorates through two underexplored cases–South Korea and Taiwan. Specifically, it investigates the effect of three conditions–seat share, electoral rules, and legislator characteristics–on legislators’ sponsorship of women’s issue bills using an original bill submission dataset. The finding shows that, on the one hand, female legislators’ increasing seat proportion made legislators stress women’s issues more and, on the other hand, new legislators elected at the party tier with civil society experience became substantially more likely to advance women's issues. In light of the evidence, this article argues that women’s issues are more actively advanced when the political space allows women’s issue-promoting legislators to pursue both electoral and policy interests.
AB - The article examines the conditions under which female legislators are more likely to act on behalf of female electorates through two underexplored cases–South Korea and Taiwan. Specifically, it investigates the effect of three conditions–seat share, electoral rules, and legislator characteristics–on legislators’ sponsorship of women’s issue bills using an original bill submission dataset. The finding shows that, on the one hand, female legislators’ increasing seat proportion made legislators stress women’s issues more and, on the other hand, new legislators elected at the party tier with civil society experience became substantially more likely to advance women's issues. In light of the evidence, this article argues that women’s issues are more actively advanced when the political space allows women’s issue-promoting legislators to pursue both electoral and policy interests.
KW - bill sponsorship
KW - gender politics
KW - South Korea
KW - Substantive representation
KW - Taiwan
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102487230&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1554477X.2021.1888677
DO - 10.1080/1554477X.2021.1888677
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85102487230
SN - 1554-477X
VL - 42
SP - 138
EP - 155
JO - Journal of Women, Politics and Policy
JF - Journal of Women, Politics and Policy
IS - 2
ER -
