Marwa Shalaby's research while affiliated with University of Wisconsin–Madison and other places

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Figure 1: Experimental Sites in a Cross-National Perspective. Figure a reports average levels of agreement with the statement that men make better politicians than women. Data come from the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (World Values Survey Association and others N.d.). Figure b reports 2021 electoral democracy scores per country collected by V-dem (Coppedge et al. 2021)
Figure 2: ATEs on Agreement that Committee Made the Right Decision. This figure reports the ATE of gender balance and committee decision treatments on a scale measuring respondents' belief that the committee made the right decision. See Appendix C.1 for full model.
Figure 4: ATEs on Belief that the Public will Accept the Committee's Decision. This figure reports the ATE of our gender balance and committee decision treatments on a single outcome measuring respondents' belief that the public will accept the committee's decision. See Appendix C.3 for full model.
Group Gender Composition and Perceptions of Legitimacy
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October 2022

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Marwa Shalaby

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Chagai Weiss

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How does the gender composition of deliberative committees affect citizens’ evaluations of decision-making processes? Do citizens perceive decisions made by gender-balanced, legislative bodies as more legitimate than those made by all-male bodies? Extant work on the link between women’s descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic legitimacy in advanced democracies finds the equal presence of women legitimizes decision-making processes. However, this relationship has not been tested in more patriarchal, less democratic settings. We employ survey experiments in Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia to investigate how citizens respond to gender representation in committees. We find that women’s presence promotes citizens’ perceptions of the legitimacy of committee processes and outcomes, and moreover, that pro-women decisions are associated with higher levels of perceived legitimacy. Thus, this study demonstrates remarkable robustness of findings from theWest regarding gender representation and contributes to the burgeoning literature on women’s descriptive representation, and women and politics in gender conservative settings

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