Replication Data for: Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy

Do gender quota laws – policies that mandate women's inclusion on parties' candidate slates – affect policy outcomes? Making Gender Salient tackles this crucial question by offering a new theory to understand when and how gender quota laws impact policy. Drawing on cross-national data from high-income democracies and a mixed-methods research design, the book argues that quotas lead to policy change for issues characterized by a gender gap in preferences, especially if these issues deviate from the usual left/right party policy divide. The book focuses on one such issue, work-family policies, and finds that quotas shift work-family policies in the direction of gender equality. Substantive chapters show that quotas make gender more salient by giving women louder voices within parties, providing access to powerful ministerial roles, and encouraging male party leaders to compete on previously marginalized issues. The book concludes that quotas are one important way of facilitating congruence between women's policy preferences and actual policy outcomes.性别配额法案（gender quota laws）——即规定女性纳入政党候选人名单的政策——是否会影响政策结果？专著《凸显性别议题》（Making Gender Salient）针对这一核心研究问题展开探讨，提出全新理论框架以解析性别配额法案何时以及如何对政策产生影响。本书依托高收入民主国家的跨国数据与混合方法研究设计，提出核心论点：当政策议题存在性别偏好差异时，尤其是当此类议题偏离政党惯常的左右翼政策分野时，配额政策会推动相关政策变革。本书聚焦其中一类议题——工作-家庭政策（work-family policies），并发现配额政策会推动工作-家庭政策向性别平等方向发展。各核心章节表明，配额政策通过以下途径强化性别议题的关注度：提升女性在政党内部的话语权，为女性获取实权内阁职务提供渠道，并激励男性政党领导人在此前被边缘化的议题上展开竞争。本书最终得出结论：配额政策是推动女性政策偏好与实际政策结果相契合的重要途径之一。