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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism19
Electoral reform and fragmented polarization: New evidence from Taiwan legislative roll calls12
Social media versus surveys: A new scalable approach to understanding legislators' discourse11
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Out‐of‐District Donors and Representation in the US House10
Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering9
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Politicians and Scandals that Damage the Party Brand8
Do Voters Know Enough to Punish Out‐of‐Step Congressional Candidates?7
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Effects of Increased Transparency on Political Divides and MP Behavior: Evidence from Televised Question Hours in the Finnish Parliament6
Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance6
Strategic Behavior in State Multimember Districts: Does Fielding One Candidate offer a Notable Advantage?6
Small in Size but Powerful in Parliament? The Legislative Performance of Minority Governments6
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics5
Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures5
The origins of centralized agenda control at Westminster: Consensus or controversy?4
Ends versus means? Ideology and support for repeals in the mass public4
Personality and political representation—How personality traits shape MPs' attitudes toward gender equality4
Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 1404
Is Incumbency Advantage Gendered?4
Constituency Size and Evaluations of Government3
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Congressional town halls3
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State Policy and National Representation: Marijuana Politics in American Federalism3
Policy Monitoring and Ministerial Survival: Evidence from Multiparty Presidentialism3
A place to speak and be heard? Parliamentary speech and media attention in Estonia, 2011–20193
Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System3
Bicameralism Hinges on Legislative Professionalism3
No Experience Required: Early Donations and Amateur Candidate Success in Primary Elections3
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits3
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How to Cautiously Uncover the “Black Box” of Machine Learning Models for Legislative Scholars2
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Unilateral Inaction: Congressional Gridlock, Interbranch Conflict, and Public Evaluations of Executive Power2
How Filibuster Rhetoric Informs Perceptions of Politicians2
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Information and Confrontation in Legislative Oversight2
The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection2
Recorded Votes as Attention Booster: How Opposition Parties use Roll Calls and Nonrecorded Votes for Position Taking in the German Bundestag, 2017–212
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Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America2
The Politics of Select Committee Assignments in the British House of Commons2
Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants2
Does Electing Women Reduce Corruption? A Regression Discontinuity Approach1
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Talking Like Opposition Parties? Electoral Proximity and Language Styles Employed by Coalition Partners in a Mixed Member Majoritarian System1
Closer to the people? Determinants of citizen–MP contact in Africa1
Lacking Incentives, Not Information. Why Politicians tend to be Less Responsive to Lower‐Income Citizens1
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Closing the Gap: An Analysis of Women's Representation in State Legislatures and the Gender Pay Gap1
Legislating landlords: Private interests, issue emphasis, and policy positions1
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Majority Party Agenda Setting: Picking Fights or Avoiding Them?1
Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets1
Physicians in congress: Professional backgrounds and legislative effectiveness1
Geographic representation and requests for federal funds in the U.S. senate1
Violence among State House Candidates during the COVID‐19 Pandemic1
The Advantage of Incumbents in Coalitional Bargaining1
Immigrant detention be banned? Constituent, subconstituent, and elite influence over House Democrat's decision to cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act1
‘No es la democracia que míster superman quiere imponernos desde Washington’: An analysis of populist attitudes on democracy from Latin American legislators1
Conducting Interview Projects in the US Congress: Analyzing the Methods of Experts in the Field0
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Candidate Extremism and Voter Roll‐Off in US House Elections0
Who Runs for Higher Office? Electoral Institutions and Level‐Hopping Attempts in Germany's State Legislatures0
Transaction Costs and Congressional Careers: The Effect of Flight Availability on Retirement Decisions0
How Do General Election Incentives Affect the Visible and Invisible Primary?0
In the Eyes of the Beholder? Understanding Policymakers' Perceptions of Corruption0
The logic of ambitious legislators in fluid party systems0
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Foxes and Hedgehogs in Legislatures: Why Do Some MPs Become Policy Specialists and Others Generalists?0
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Engaged Hawks and Quiet Doves: Introducing the National Defense Engagement Index0
Still “the Domain of Men?” Gender Quotas and Women's Inclusion in Local Politics in Italy0
Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan0
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Trade Competitiveness, Constituency Interests, and Legislators' Attitudes Towards Trade Agreements0
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Why Do Young Men Oppose Gender Quotas? Group Threat and Backlash to Legislative Gender Quotas0
Historically marginalized groups and ideological representation in legislatures0
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Vote Switching in Multiparty Presidential Systems: Evidence from the Argentine Chamber of Deputies0
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Parliaments Day‐by‐Day: A New Open Source Database to Answer the Question of Who Was in What Parliament, Party, and Party‐group, and When0
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures0
The Institution's Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity0
When voting no is not enough: Legislative brawling and obstruction in Korea0
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How Politicians Downplay Lower‐Educated Citizens' Opinions0
Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress0
Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting0
Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform0
Driving Legislators' Policy Preferences: Constituent Commutes and Gas Taxes0
A Good Partisan? Ideology, Loyalty, and Public Evaluations of Members of Congress0
Coalition Governance under Separation of Powers: Shadowing by Committee in Coalitional Presidentialism0
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The foundational effects of gender: Exploring Latin American Elites’ perceptions of corruption0
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Experimental Evidence of the Benefits and Risks of Credit Claiming and Pork Busting0
Maybe later: Term limits and strategy behind candidate entry0
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Distinctive Voices: Political Speech, Rhetoric, and the Substantive Representation of Women in European Parliaments0
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Bureaucratic Responsiveness under Dynamic Political Settings: Experimental Evidence from Local Governments0
Constituency Focus in Party‐Centered Systems: How Individual, Party, and District‐Level Factors Shape Parliamentary Questions in South Africa0
The drama is in the ink:Conflict in written parliamentary questions0
Who works with whom? Collaboration ties in legislative policy‐making networks0
Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat0
Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization0
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The Promise and Peril of Constituent Interactions: The Determinants of Town Hall Participation Among Members of Congress0
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Misogyny, politics, and social media determinants of hostile engagement against women parliamentarians on Twitter0
Partisanship and the Effectiveness of Personal Vote Seeking0
Resignation as Promotion? Executive Turnover and Early Departures in the Argentine Congress, 1983–20170
Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency0
Competence in the Eye of the Electorate: Appearance, Incumbency, and Vote Shares0
Take (Her) to the Limit: Term Limits do Not Diminish Women's Overperformance in Legislative Office0
Changes in the Rules of the Lawmaking Process and the Success of Presidential Bills: Chile, 1990–20180
Buying Amendments? Lobbyists' Campaign Contributions and Microlegislation in the Creation of the Affordable Care Act0
Talking to the Populist Radical Right: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Debates0
Legislative Pensions and Re‐election Seeking: Evidence from Canadian Legislatures0
Polarization and Place‐Based Representation in US State Legislatures0
The (Financial) Ties That Bind: Social Networks of Intraparty Caucuses0
Legislative Capacity in Germany's Parliaments0
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How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators0
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The Legislative Agenda in 13 African Countries: A Comprehensive Database0
Interpersonal Relationships and Legislative Collaboration in Congress0
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When Do Interest Groups Lobby Legislators in Strong Presidential Systems?0
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Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures0
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Parliamentary Control of the Executive and the Duration of Government Formation0
Attention to the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators0
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Loyal Activists? Party Socialization and Dissenting Voting Behavior in Parliament0
Partisan Governance and Minority Party Vetoes: Evidence from State Legislatures0
Geographical Representation Under a Single Nationwide District: The Case of the Netherlands0
The Effects of Women's Descriptive Representation on Government Behavior0
Are Subnational Policymakers' Policy Preferences Nationalized? Evidence from Surveys of Township, Municipal, County, and State Officials0
Black Trust inUSLegislatures0
Rules and the Containment of Conflict in Congress0
Already Gone: Retaining Women in State Legislatures0
Line‐item vetoes as a coordination mechanism0
The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems0
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Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments0
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Measuring Congressional Partisanship and Its Consequences0
Heeding to the Losers: Legislators' Trade‐Policy Preferences and Legislative Behavior0
Institutional opportunism: How electoral fortunes shape preferences for power‐sharing institutions in Latin America0
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