Does Descriptive Representation Facilitate Women’s Substantive Representation? How Gender Composition Affects Deliberation and Distributive Decision-Making

• In Event: Women's Descriptive Representation: Its Promise and Limits

Brief Overview

Does low descriptive representation inhibit women's substantive representation? By conducting an experiment that randomized the group's gender composition, we found women’s descriptive representation leads to substantive representation.

Authors

• Diqing Lou, Wuhan University

• Yifan Zhou, Wuhan University