Representative bureaucracy and its symbolic effect on citizens: a conceptual replication
本研究概念性复制了先前关于性别代表对公民信任与合作影响的实验，但在应急准备政策领域未发现显著效应，表明性别代表的象征性效应可能具有政策特异性。
Representative bureaucracy has been a topic of research for over half a century, but only recently studied experimentally. Initial empirical findings from two prior experiments – one involving policing, the other recycling – showed gender representation effects on citizens’ trust and cooperation. In this conceptual replication, we examine gender representation effects in another policy domain: emergency preparedness. However, despite using a similar sample and experimental paradigm, we find no effects. These null findings are important, as they suggest that the symbolic effects of gender representation may be policy-specific – and that replication is needed to test the boundary conditions of previously reported results.