Representative Bureaucracy, Gender Congruence, and Student Performance in China

Zhang, Youlang

doi:10.1080/10967494.2018.1428702

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“…However, existing studies mainly focus on the role of females in gender representation, paying scant attention to whether male bureaucrats also reflect the interests of male clients. A recent study tested gender representation in both male and female students, finding that female maths teachers are positively associated with female students' maths scores, while the presence of male maths teachers has no significant effect on male students' maths performance (Zhang 2019). In this study, we argue that the issue of gender representation merits further investigation for two reasons.…”

Section: Clients' Gendermentioning

confidence: 76%

“…The effect of gender differentiation on service provision has been widely examined in the field of representative bureaucracy (Meier and Nicholson-Crotty 2006;Riccucci, Van Ryzin, and Lavena 2014;Zhang 2019). Generally, representation can be divided into two types: passive and active representation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To fill in above gaps, this study explores the determinants influencing frontline discretion in a regulatory context, extending the empirical exploration from social services to the regulatory sector. We will test street-level discretion theory in China, a country has political, institutional and cultural background that are radically different from Western countries (Zhang 2019). If the theory of street-level discretion can hold in China, then its cross-national generalizability could gain substantial support.…”

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Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China

Yang

Huang

2021

Public Management Review

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How is the discretion of police officers influenced by clients' gender and situational visibility under emergency regulations? To answer this question, this study uses the scenario-based-experimental-survey data collected from 878 police officers from three cities in China under the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that the effect of gender congruence on the leniency of officers is only significantly positive when police and clients are both female. However, situational visibility will weaken the gender effect, reducing the officers' leniency towards females. Moreover, visibility makes police even harsher towards male violators. The findings provide some practical implications.

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Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China

Yang

Huang

2021

Public Management Review

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“…Notably, street-level bureaucrats also need to interpret rules and consciously allocate scarce time, energy, and resources in the delivery of public services even in a centralized context like China (Y. Zhang, 2019;H. Zhang et al, 2020).…”

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Managerial Communication and Frontline Workers’ Willingness to Abide by Rules: Evidence From Local Security Agencies in China

Zhang

Yang

Zhao

2021

The American Review of Public Administration

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Previous research has studied both rule- and individual-level determinants of rule abidance of frontline workers, but the effect of managerial communication has not been adequately explored. Based on extant literature on street-level bureaucracy, managerial communication, and behavioral public administration, this study develops a novel framework to theorize the relationship between managerial communication and frontline workers’ willingness to abide by frontline rules. The framework highlights that managerial communication could improve frontline workers’ willingness to abide by rules by directly monitoring their behaviors or indirectly increasing their perceived rule clarity and risk of punishment. Moreover, as organizational size increases, the effect of managerial communication on frontline workers’ willingness to abide by rules decreases. The study uses unique data from a 2018–2019 survey covering 94 frontline managers and 717 frontline workers in local security agencies in mainland China to empirically test the hypotheses.

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“…Nicholson-Crotty et al, 2011; Selden, 1997). Current literature has found positive outcomes for civilians, based on gender representation, across a variety of contexts including education, policing, child support enforcement, and job counseling (Andrews & Miller, 2013; Bearfield, 2009; Guul, 2018; Johnston & Houston, 2018; Keiser et al, 2002; Meier & Nicholson-Crotty, 2006; Schuck, 2018; Song, 2018; Wilkins, 2006; Wilkins & Keiser, 2006; Zhang, 2018).…”

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Police Use of Force Interactions: Is Race Relevant or Gender Germane?

Wright

Headley

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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Representative bureaucracy research has examined the influence of race and ethnicity on policing outcomes, yet little is known about police use of force specifically at the individual-level. To address this topic more meticulously, we utilize individual-level data (from Indianapolis and Dallas police departments) to explore differences in the amount of force used by officers in ethnic, racial, and gender matches in police–civilian dyads. Findings suggest that there are heightened levels of force used when there is racial and gender incongruenc between the officer and the civilian, particularly White officers interacting with Black civilians. We discuss how this finding may impact police departments moving forward.

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Representative Bureaucracy, Gender Congruence, and Student Performance in China

Cited by 27 publications

References 57 publications

Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China

Gender, situational visibility, and discretionary decision-making of regulatory street-level bureaucrats under pandemic emergency: an experimental study in China

Managerial Communication and Frontline Workers’ Willingness to Abide by Rules: Evidence From Local Security Agencies in China

Police Use of Force Interactions: Is Race Relevant or Gender Germane?

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