Replication Data for: Marginalization and Mobilization: The Roots of Female Legislators' Collaborative Advantage in the States

Recent scholarship has argued that female legislators are more prone to collaborate than their male counterparts. Though collaboration may be more or less evident in particular situations, we seek to more adequately establish how collaborative women are in general and in varied political contexts using the framework of marginalization. In this paper, we use co-sponsorship data from 74 state legislative chambers from 2011-2014 to analyze the collaborative patterns of female legislators. We find that female legislators are more collaborative than men, and that this collaborative advantage is greater in chambers where women are systematically excluded from positions of influence. Furthermore, the advantage does extend to bipartisan collaboration, but only where we find women's caucuses and even then only where party polarization is moderate to low.