Legislative Studies Quarterly

Article	Citations
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits	21
Congressional town halls	17
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics	17
Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance	16
Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America	14
About the Authors	14
Cover Bills	13
Lacking Incentives, Not Information. Why Politicians tend to be Less Responsive to Lower‐Income Citizens	12
Immigrant detention be banned? Constituent, subconstituent, and elite influence over House Democrat's decision to cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act	12
Recorded Votes as Attention Booster: How Opposition Parties use Roll Calls and Nonrecorded Votes for Position Taking in the German Bundestag, 2017–21	12
Success Denied: Social Class and Perceptions of Political Success	11
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Who works with whom? Collaboration ties in legislative policy‐making networks	9
About the Authors	9
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Historically marginalized groups and ideological representation in legislatures	8
A Rich Woman's World? Wealth and Gendered Paths to Office	7
Wealth and Policymaking in the U.S. House of Representatives	7
District Size and Proximity to the Pork Barrel in Congressional Elections	6
Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments	6
Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting	6
The drama is in the ink: Conflict in written parliamentary questions	6
Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency	6
The Political Economy of High‐Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High‐Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress	6
Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress	6

Who Shows Up? Legislative Attendance by Electoral Seat Type in Bangladesh and Pakistan	5
About the Authors	5
The Institution's Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity	5
Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists	5
The Legislative Agenda in 13 African Countries: A Comprehensive Database	4
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	4
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CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e‐Newsletters in Australia	4
About the Authors	4
Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform	4
How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators	4
Partisan and Ideological Bias Among the Attentive Public: Evidence From Witness Slips in the Illinois General Assembly	4
Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan	4
“Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority	3
Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization	3
Issue Information	3
Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures	3
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Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming	2
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Trade Competitiveness, Constituency Interests, and Legislators' Attitudes Towards Trade Agreements	2
Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures	2
Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 140	2
Military Experience and the Use of Force: Congressional AUMF Votes Among Combat and Non‐Combat Veteran Legislators	2
The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection	2
Dancing Around the Issue? Public Opinion and Strategic Vagueness in Parliamentary Speech	2
Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering	2
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Divergent Position Taking Under Uncertainty With an Application to Chile's 2021–2022 Constituent Convention	2
Information and Confrontation in Legislative Oversight	1
How Filibuster Rhetoric Informs Perceptions of Politicians	1
Issue Information	1
Misogyny, politics, and social media determinants of hostile engagement against women parliamentarians on Twitter	1
Who Runs for Higher Office? Electoral Institutions and Level‐Hopping Attempts in Germany's State Legislatures	1
District Populations and Partisan Bias	1
A Measure of Congressional Committee Influence	1
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Issue Information	1
Partisan Governance and Minority Party Vetoes: Evidence from State Legislatures	1
About the Authors	1
About the Authors	1
Correction to “Does the Numerical Underrepresentation of the Working Class in Congress Matter?”	1
Ends versus means? Ideology and support for repeals in the mass public	1
Influence of Interest Group Affiliations on Legislative Performance: An Analysis of Mexican Legislators From 2006 to 2018	1
Engaged Hawks and Quiet Doves: Introducing the National Defense Engagement Index	1
Gender, Party Status, and Lawmaking in the American States: A Reassessment of Legislative Effectiveness	1
Men Are From Mars, and Women Are From Venus? Political Ambition of Women and Men Within the Legislature	1
When voting no is not enough: Legislative brawling and obstruction in Korea	1
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How Do General Election Incentives Affect the Visible and Invisible Primary?	1

Does It Matter What You Do (Or Only Who You Are)? On the Effects of Parliamentarians' Behavior on Vote Choice	1
Do Women Legislators Legislate Differently Than Men on Gun‐Related Policy? A Suggestive Yes	1
Effects of Seating Arrangements on Parliamentary Collaborations	1
Prior Experience and State Legislative Effectiveness	1
Legislative Pensions and Re‐election Seeking: Evidence from Canadian Legislatures	1
Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants	1
No Experience Required: Early Donations and Amateur Candidate Success in Primary Elections	1
The logic of ambitious legislators in fluid party systems	1
Competence in the Eye of the Electorate: Appearance, Incumbency, and Vote Shares	1
Line‐item vetoes as a coordination mechanism	1
Distinctive Voices: Political Speech, Rhetoric, and the Substantive Representation of Women in European Parliaments	1
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Party Considerations for Renomination in Pre‐Electoral Coalitions	1
When Do Interest Groups Lobby Legislators in Strong Presidential Systems?	1
Are State Legislative Leaders Moderates?	1
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Electoral Reform and Legislative Behavior: Evidence From Denmark's Transition to Proportional Representation	0
Legislation Against the Odds: Overcoming Ideological Gridlock in EU Decision‐Making	0
The Effect of Policy Traceability on Legislative Incentives	0
Physicians in congress: Professional backgrounds and legislative effectiveness	0
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Issue Information	0
Black Trust inUSLegislatures	0
Effects of Increased Transparency on Political Divides and MP Behavior: Evidence from Televised Question Hours in the Finnish Parliament	0
Minor Party Major Change: Democratic Environmental Re‐Prioritization in Response to Green Party Competition	0
Geographical Representation on the Floor: Parliamentary Rules and Legislative Speeches in Party‐Centered Contexts	0
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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 legislators	0
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Legislative Control and Partisan Disparities in Dyadic Representation	0
Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination?	0
Getting what you pay for: Resource allocations and legislative success	0
The Separation of Powers and Policymaking in the US States	0
About the Authors	0
Control or Representation? Government‐Opposition Dynamics and the Use of Geographic Parliamentary Questions	0
Talking to the Populist Radical Right: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Debates	0
Institutional opportunism: How electoral fortunes shape preferences for power‐sharing institutions in Latin America	0
Boosted and Branded: Congressional Advertising With Constituents	0
Underneath the Surface: Unpacking Gendered Dynamics in Legislative Oversight in Italian Municipalities	0
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Bureaucratic Responsiveness under Dynamic Political Settings: Experimental Evidence from Local Governments	0
The foundational effects of gender: Exploring Latin American elites’ perceptions of corruption	0
The (Sometimes Untraceable) Origins of Policy Ideas in Congress: An Analysis of Seven Landmark Laws	0
Tabling Debate: How Local Officials Try to Use Agenda Control to Stifle Conflict	0
Cheerleaders for Autocracy: Parliamentary Speech Making During Democratic Backsliding in Malawi and Zambia	0
The Link Between Educational Socialization, Descriptive Representation, and Substantive Representation	0
About the Authors	0
Explaining How Subnational Politics Shapes Committee Assignment in a Federal Country: The Case of Argentina	0
Promoting a Diverse Bench: An Analysis of Elite Messaging About Descriptive Representation	0
The Promise and Peril of Constituent Interactions: The Determinants of Town Hall Participation Among Members of Congress	0
Ministries That We Want: Legislative Behavior and Signaling of Portfolio Salience	0
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Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees, and Interbranch Conflict	0
Interest Groups and Intra‐Party Conflict on Scored Votes	0
The origins of centralized agenda control at Westminster: Consensus or controversy?	0
Do Your Job, Keep Your Seat: The Causal Effect of MPs' Legislation on Reelection	0
Legislating landlords: Private interests, issue emphasis, and policy positions	0
A place to speak and be heard? Parliamentary speech and media attention in Estonia, 2011–2019	0
Does Electing Women Reduce Corruption? A Regression Discontinuity Approach	0
Rhetorical and Revealed Opposition to Compromise Among Local and State Legislators	0
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Talking Like Opposition Parties? Electoral Proximity and Language Styles Employed by Coalition Partners in a Mixed Member Majoritarian System	0
Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914	0
About the Authors	0
A More Future‐Oriented Legislature? The Impact of a Permanent “Future Committee” on the Temporal Focus of MPs	0
Bicameralism Hinges on Legislative Professionalism	0
The Partisan Politics of Rainy Day Fund Investment	0
Misrepresented or Miss Represented? Gendered Priority Responsiveness in Norway	0
Loyal Activists? Party Socialization and Dissenting Voting Behavior in Parliament	0
Parliamentary Staff Size Around the World	0
Are Subnational Policymakers' Policy Preferences Nationalized? Evidence from Surveys of Township, Municipal, County, and State Officials	0
Already Gone: Retaining Women in State Legislatures	0
Experimental Evidence of the Benefits and Risks of Credit Claiming and Pork Busting	0
Shared Pain, Common Purpose: How Shared Problem Status Drives Congressional Collaboration on Opioid Legislation	0
Issue Information	0
Conducting Interview Projects in the US Congress: Analyzing the Methods of Experts in the Field	0
In the Eyes of the Beholder? Understanding Policymakers' Perceptions of Corruption	0
Coalition Governance under Separation of Powers: Shadowing by Committee in Coalitional Presidentialism	0

Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat	0
Analyzing gender gaps in bicameral legislatures: How asymmetrical institutions affect the supply and demand for female candidates	0
Maybe later: Term limits and strategy behind candidate entry	0
Social media versus surveys: A new scalable approach to understanding legislators' discourse	0
Strategies of Control: Members of Congress and Policy Outcomes	0
When Politics Is Not Pivotal: Supermajority Debate Rules in State Legislatures	0
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What Legislators Tell Us About Legislatures: Evidence From PELA‐USAL	0
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Electoral reform and fragmented polarization: New evidence from Taiwan legislative roll calls	0
The Quality of Bipartisan Legislation	0
Closing the Gap: An Analysis of Women's Representation in State Legislatures and the Gender Pay Gap	0
The Language of Delegation: An NLP Analysis of Congressional Bill Text	0
Personality and political representation—How personality traits shape MPs' attitudes toward gender equality	0
Geographic representation and requests for federal funds in the U.S. senate	0
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Who gets to speak for the party? How parliamentary party groups select spokespersons	0
Polarization and Place‐Based Representation in US State Legislatures	0
Proving Her Strength: The Partisan and Gendered Implications of Legislative Obstruction	0
Closer to the people? Determinants of citizen–MP contact in Africa	0
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Parliamentary Control of the Executive and the Duration of Government Formation	0
The Duration of Caretaker Periods and the Formation of Parliamentary Governments	0
Take (Her) to the Limit: Term Limits do Not Diminish Women's Overperformance in Legislative Office	0
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Still “the Domain of Men?” Gender Quotas and Women's Inclusion in Local Politics in Italy	0
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Human Capital Exiting Capitol Hill? Differences in Congressional Staff Turnover by Race and Gender	0
Policy Content of Legislative Vetoes and Success of Presidential Activism Under Semi‐Presidentialism	0
A Good Partisan? Ideology, Loyalty, and Public Evaluations of Members of Congress	0
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Geographical Representation Under a Single Nationwide District: The Case of the Netherlands	0
Constituency Focus in Party‐Centered Systems: How Individual, Party, and District‐Level Factors Shape Parliamentary Questions in South Africa	0
Foxes and Hedgehogs in Legislatures: Why Do Some MPs Become Policy Specialists and Others Generalists?	0