代表性官僚制:女性高级警官影响性别暴力的逮捕率吗?

Representative bureaucracy:does female police leadership affect gender-based violence arrests?

代表性官僚制理论假定消极代表性会转化为少数群体的积极代表性。本文对英国女性高级警官的消极代表性以及在性别暴力逮捕率方面女性的积极代表性进行了调查。大多数代表性官僚制研究都关注基层,有证据表明,少数群体背景的基层官员的自由裁量权可以产生积极代表性。本文聚焦于公共部门的领导层。本文的实证研究基于面板数据开展,其中,女警官为自变量,性别暴力逮捕率为因变量。分析表明,领导层的女警官几乎不会对女性产生积极代表性。

Representative bureaucracy theory postulates that passive representation leads to active representation of minority groups.This article investigates the passive representation of female police officers at leadership levels and the active representation of women vis-a-vis gender-based violence arrest rates in the UK.Much of the extant research on representative bureaucracy is located at street level,with evidence showing that discretionary power of minority bureaucrats can lead to active representation.This article is focused on leadership levels of a public bureaucracy.The empirical research is based upon a panel dataset of female police officers as an independent variable and gender-based violence arrest rates as a dependent variable.The analysis reveals that there is little evidence of active representation of women by female police leadership.