Women in Chinese Politics (Pre-Recorded)

Session Submission Type: In-Person Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel brings together four papers that use original data to study women in Chinese politics—--an important yet scarcely studied topic in comparative and authoritarian politics. Lu and Wang will study how drinking culture prevents promotion of female bureaucrats; Liu will investigate the differential risk preference in governance between female and male mayors in China and the implications for career trajectory; Liu, Xi and Xu will study the relationship between female officials and environmental outcomes in Chinese localities; and Feng, Hou and Liu will examine why female legislators in China are more productive, measured by sponsoring bills, than their male colleagues.

Sub Unit

• Division 13: Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries

Individual Presentations

• Sober Up: The Effect of Drinking Culture on Female Officials’ Careers in China - Fengming Lu, Australian National University; Erik H Wang, Princeton University

• Treading Carefully: Chinese Female Politicians’ Risk-Aversion in Governance - Hanzhang Liu, Pitzer College

• Does Female Leadership Matter in a One-Party State? - Tianyang Xi, Peking University

• Underrepresented Outperformers: Female Legislators in the Chinese Congress - Mingxing Liu, Peking University; Xinrui Feng, University of International Business and Economics

Chair

• Dawn L. Teele Johns Hopkins University

Discussants

• Sarah S. Bush Yale University

• Tanushree Goyal Harvard University