{"id":81502,"date":"2025-07-15T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/?p=81502"},"modified":"2025-07-15T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:27:19","slug":"preferences-for-female-successors-evidence-from-a-survey-experiment-among-japanese-local-politicians%ef%bc%88published-in-electoral-studies-july-2025%ef%bc%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/news\/81502","title":{"rendered":"Preferences for female successors: Evidence from a survey experiment among Japanese local politicians\uff08Published in Electoral Studies, July, 2025\uff09"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table table-bordered table-colored-tbhd\" style=\"height: 550px; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 78px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.0523%; height: 78px;\">Journal Title<br \/>\n\/\u63b2\u8f09\u30b8\u30e3\u30fc\u30ca\u30eb\u540d<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80.849%; height: 78px;\">Electoral Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 65px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.0523%; height: 80px;\">Publication Year and Month<br \/>\n\/\u63b2\u8f09\u5e74\u6708<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80.849%; height: 80px;\">July, 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 55px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.0523%; height: 79px;\">Paper Title<br \/>\n\/\u8ad6\u6587\u30bf\u30a4\u30c8\u30eb<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80.849%; height: 79px;\">Preferences for female successors: Evidence from a survey experiment among Japanese local politicians<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 85px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.0523%; height: 85px;\">DOI<br \/>\n\/\u8ad6\u6587DOI<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80.849%; height: 85px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.electstud.2025.102956\">10.1016\/j.electstud.2025.102956<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 59px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.0523%; height: 80px;\">\u00a0Author of Waseda University<br \/>\n\/\u672c\u5b66\u306e\u8457\u8005<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80.849%; height: 80px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">ONO, Yoshikuni(Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, School of Political Science and Economics):Correspoinding Author, Last Author<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 68px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.0523%; height: 86px;\">Related Websites<br \/>\n\/\u95a2\u9023Web<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80.849%; height: 86px;\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 138px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 19.0523%; height: 148px;\">Abstract<br \/>\n\/\u6284\u9332<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80.849%; height: 148px;\">Incumbents often serve as critical gatekeepers in the recruitment of new candidates and may even designate their successors upon retirement. Some existing research indicates that the gender of gatekeepers is likely to affect the recruitment of female candidates, a dynamic of particular concern in countries like Japan, where political offices are predominantly held by men. However, it remains unclear whether the underrepresentation of women stems from male incumbents actively discriminating against female candidates during the recruitment process. Through a survey experiment involving over 7000 elected local politicians in Japan, we examine gender biases in the successor selection process and attitudes toward female candidacy. Contrary to our expectations, the results reveal that local politicians, irrespective of their own gender, are more inclined to nominate women over men as their successors. They also believe that these female candidates would receive support from their local constituencies. These findings suggest that the selection practices of incumbents may not significantly contribute to the underrepresentation of women in politics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal Title \/\u63b2\u8f09\u30b8\u30e3\u30fc\u30ca\u30eb\u540d Electoral Studies Publication Year and Month \/\u63b2\u8f09\u5e74\u6708 July, 2025 Paper Title \/\u8ad6\u6587\u30bf\u30a4\u30c8\u30eb Pref [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[218,217],"class_list":["post-81502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-impact-en","tag-impact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81503,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81502\/revisions\/81503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}