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Who represents women and why in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
Asian Journal of Women's Studies ( IF 0.661 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 , DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2019.1648742
Kimiko Osawa 1 , Jiso Yoon 2
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ABSTRACT This paper examines how women’s presence makes a difference in the realm of women’s substantive representation, focusing on the case of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. We define substantive representation as legislators’ actions on behalf of women, through which they try to represent women’s interests and seek solutions to the problems and difficulties they face. First, we examined the statements made by the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly members in legislative debates. We then conducted in-depth interviews with five female assembly members who spoke for women considerably more than all the others, in order to understand what they did for women and why, in addition to the difficulties they faced in putting their ideas into practice. Our findings show that female members of minor parties and independent members were passionate about acting for women, but their ability to actually implement their ideas in the way of policy outputs was limited, because of institutional constraints, such as weak policy powers of the legislature and their minority status. Overall, our study builds on research on women’s substantive representation by reaffirming the importance of political parties and institutions as key factors shaping the process and outcomes of women’s substantive representation.

中文翻译:

谁在东京都议会中代表女性以及为什么

摘要 本文以东京都议会的案例为重点,研究了女性的存在如何在女性的实质性代表领域产生影响。我们将实质性​​代表定义为立法者代表妇女的行为,通过这种行为,他们试图代表妇女的利益,并寻求解决她们面临的问题和困难的方法。首先,我们研究了东京都议会议员在立法辩论中的发言。然后,我们对五名女性议员进行了深入采访,她们为女性发言的次数远远多于其他人,以了解她们为女性所做的事情及其原因,以及她们在将想法付诸实践时遇到的困难。我们的研究结果表明,小党的女性成员和独立成员热衷于为女性行事,但由于立法机关的政策权力薄弱等制度限制,她们以政策产出的方式实际实施自己的想法的能力有限。他们的少数民族地位。总的来说,我们的研究建立在对女性实质性代表的研究的基础上,重申政党和机构作为塑造女性实质性代表的过程和结果的关键因素的重要性。
更新日期:2019-07-03
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