Legislative Studies Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Legislative Studies Quarterly is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets19
On Whose Door to Knock? Organized Interests’ Strategic Pursuit of Access to Members of Congress14
Problem Solving and the Demand for Expert Information in Congress12
Out‐of‐District Donors and Representation in the US House12
Why Do Young Men Oppose Gender Quotas? Group Threat and Backlash to Legislative Gender Quotas11
Distinctive Voices: Political Speech, Rhetoric, and the Substantive Representation of Women in European Parliaments11
Responsiveness and Democratic Accountability: Observational Evidence from an Experiment in a Mixed‐Member Proportional System11
The Effects of Women's Descriptive Representation on Government Behavior10
Bureaucrats as Lawmakers9
Small in Size but Powerful in Parliament? The Legislative Performance of Minority Governments9
Attention to the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators8
Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System8
Politicians and Scandals that Damage the Party Brand8
No Experience Required: Early Donations and Amateur Candidate Success in Primary Elections7
Is Incumbency Advantage Gendered?7
Are Subnational Policymakers' Policy Preferences Nationalized? Evidence from Surveys of Township, Municipal, County, and State Officials6
Constituency Size and Evaluations of Government6
The Institution's Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity6
Does Electing Women Reduce Corruption? A Regression Discontinuity Approach6
Changes in the Rules of the Lawmaking Process and the Success of Presidential Bills: Chile, 1990–20185
The Advantage of Incumbents in Coalitional Bargaining5
Measuring Congressional Partisanship and Its Consequences5
Talking to the Populist Radical Right: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Debates4
Violence among State House Candidates during the COVID‐19 Pandemic4
Loyal Activists? Party Socialization and Dissenting Voting Behavior in Parliament4
The Effects of High‐Information Environments on Legislative Behavior in the US House of Representatives4
Geographical Representation Under a Single Nationwide District: The Case of the Netherlands4
Nonelectoral Motivations to Represent Marginalized Groups in a Democracy: Evidence from an Unelected Legislature4
Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform3
Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat3
A Clarity Model of District Representation: District Magnitude and Pork Priorities3
Policy Monitoring and Ministerial Survival: Evidence from Multiparty Presidentialism3
The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems3
The Legislative Agenda in 13 African Countries: A Comprehensive Database3
The Politics of Select Committee Assignments in the British House of Commons3
Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism3
Heeding to the Losers: Legislators' Trade‐Policy Preferences and Legislative Behavior3
Resignation as Promotion? Executive Turnover and Early Departures in the Argentine Congress, 1983–20173
Legislative Capacity in Germany's Parliaments3
Unilateral Inaction: Congressional Gridlock, Interbranch Conflict, and Public Evaluations of Executive Power3
Parliaments Day‐by‐Day: A New Open Source Database to Answer the Question of Who Was in What Parliament, Party, and Party‐group, and When2
Driving Legislators' Policy Preferences: Constituent Commutes and Gas Taxes2
Transaction Costs and Congressional Careers: The Effect of Flight Availability on Retirement Decisions2
Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants2
Government Type and Public Spending in Africa2
A Good Partisan? Ideology, Loyalty, and Public Evaluations of Members of Congress2
It Takes a Coalition: The Community Impacts of Collaboration2
Experimental Evidence of the Benefits and Risks of Credit Claiming and Pork Busting2
Partisanship and the Effectiveness of Personal Vote Seeking2
When Do Interest Groups Lobby Legislators in Strong Presidential Systems?2
Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering2
Constituency Focus in Party‐Centered Systems: How Individual, Party, and District‐Level Factors Shape Parliamentary Questions in South Africa2
Legislative Constraints, Ideological Conflict, and the Timing of Executive Unilateralism2
Rules and the Containment of Conflict in Congress2
Foxes and Hedgehogs in Legislatures: Why Do Some MPs Become Policy Specialists and Others Generalists?2
Black Trust inUSLegislatures2
Bicameralism Hinges on Legislative Professionalism2
Interpersonal Relationships and Legislative Collaboration in Congress2
In the Eyes of the Beholder? Understanding Policymakers' Perceptions of Corruption2
Conducting Interview Projects in the US Congress: Analyzing the Methods of Experts in the Field1
Legislative Scholars Should Study Extralegislative Outcomes1
Already Gone: Retaining Women in State Legislatures1
How Do General Election Incentives Affect the Visible and Invisible Primary?1
Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments1
Trade Competitiveness, Constituency Interests, and Legislators' Attitudes Towards Trade Agreements1
Democratic Party Control Reduces Gender Inequality1
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Candidate Extremism and Voter Roll‐Off in US House Elections1
Still “the Domain of Men?” Gender Quotas and Women's Inclusion in Local Politics in Italy1
Polarization and Place‐Based Representation in US State Legislatures1
Who Runs for Higher Office? Electoral Institutions and Level‐Hopping Attempts in Germany's State Legislatures1
State Policy and National Representation: Marijuana Politics in American Federalism1
Strategic Behavior in State Multimember Districts: Does Fielding One Candidate offer a Notable Advantage?1
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The (Financial) Ties That Bind: Social Networks of Intraparty Caucuses1
Bureaucratic Responsiveness under Dynamic Political Settings: Experimental Evidence from Local Governments1
How Politicians Downplay Lower‐Educated Citizens' Opinions1
Take (Her) to the Limit: Term Limits do Not Diminish Women's Overperformance in Legislative Office1
How to Cautiously Uncover the “Black Box” of Machine Learning Models for Legislative Scholars1
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics1
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Historically marginalized groups and ideological representation in legislatures0
The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection0
The origins of centralized agenda control at Westminster: Consensus or controversy?0
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Personality and political representation—How personality traits shape MPs' attitudes toward gender equality0
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Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance0
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Institutional opportunism: How electoral fortunes shape preferences for power‐sharing institutions in Latin America0
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The logic of ambitious legislators in fluid party systems0
Coalition Governance under Separation of Powers: Shadowing by Committee in Coalitional Presidentialism0
Vote Switching in Multiparty Presidential Systems: Evidence from the Argentine Chamber of Deputies0
Closer to the people? Determinants of citizen–MP contact in Africa0
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Information and Confrontation in Legislative Oversight0
Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan0
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Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America0
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Parliamentary Control of the Executive and the Duration of Government Formation0
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Legislative Pensions and Re‐election Seeking: Evidence from Canadian Legislatures0
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How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators0
Partisan Governance and Minority Party Vetoes: Evidence from State Legislatures0
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Temporal Strategies: Governments Alter the Pace of Legislation in Bicameralism Depending on Electoral Expectations0
The Promise and Peril of Constituent Interactions: The Determinants of Town Hall Participation Among Members of Congress0
Recorded Votes as Attention Booster: How Opposition Parties use Roll Calls and Nonrecorded Votes for Position Taking in the German Bundestag, 2017–210
Legislating landlords: Private interests, issue emphasis, and policy positions0
Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 1400
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures0
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Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency0
Political Uncertainty and the Vote‐of‐Confidence Procedure0
Do Voters Know Enough to Punish Out‐of‐Step Congressional Candidates?0
Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting0
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The foundational effects of gender: Exploring Latin American Elites’ perceptions of corruption0
Competence in the Eye of the Electorate: Appearance, Incumbency, and Vote Shares0
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‘No es la democracia que míster superman quiere imponernos desde Washington’: An analysis of populist attitudes on democracy from Latin American legislators0
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How Filibuster Rhetoric Informs Perceptions of Politicians0
Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures0
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Social media versus surveys: A new scalable approach to understanding legislators' discourse0
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Line‐item vetoes as a coordination mechanism0
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Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures0
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Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress0
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Engaged Hawks and Quiet Doves: Introducing the National Defense Engagement Index0
Lacking Incentives, Not Information. Why Politicians tend to be Less Responsive to Lower‐Income Citizens0
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Who works with whom? Collaboration ties in legislative policy‐making networks0
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Geographic representation and requests for federal funds in the U.S. senate0
Effects of Increased Transparency on Political Divides and MP Behavior: Evidence from Televised Question Hours in the Finnish Parliament0
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A place to speak and be heard? Parliamentary speech and media attention in Estonia, 2011–20190
Buying Amendments? Lobbyists' Campaign Contributions and Microlegislation in the Creation of the Affordable Care Act0
Closing the Gap: An Analysis of Women's Representation in State Legislatures and the Gender Pay Gap0
Electoral reform and fragmented polarization: New evidence from Taiwan legislative roll calls0
When voting no is not enough: Legislative brawling and obstruction in Korea0
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The drama is in the ink:Conflict in written parliamentary questions0
Majority Party Agenda Setting: Picking Fights or Avoiding Them?0
Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization0
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Talking Like Opposition Parties? Electoral Proximity and Language Styles Employed by Coalition Partners in a Mixed Member Majoritarian System0
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The Development of Representation in American Political Institutions0
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