OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Legislative Studies Quarterly is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	26
Congressional town halls	20
Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism	11
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits	11
Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance	11
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics	11
Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America	10
About the Authors	10
Constituency Size and Evaluations of Government	9
Lacking Incentives, Not Information. Why Politicians tend to be Less Responsive to Lower‐Income Citizens	8
Recorded Votes as Attention Booster: How Opposition Parties use Roll Calls and Nonrecorded Votes for Position Taking in the German Bundestag, 2017–21	8
Immigrant detention be banned? Constituent, subconstituent, and elite influence over House Democrat's decision to cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act	7
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Violence among State House Candidates during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	6
Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress	6
Historically marginalized groups and ideological representation in legislatures	6
Who works with whom? Collaboration ties in legislative policy‐making networks	6
About the Authors	6
Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists	5
The drama is in the ink: Conflict in written parliamentary questions	5
Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments	5
Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting	5
The Political Economy of High‐Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High‐Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress	5
How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators	4
The Institution's Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity	4

About the Authors	4
Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency	4
CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e‐Newsletters in Australia	3
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	3
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Resignation as Promotion? Executive Turnover and Early Departures in the Argentine Congress, 1983–2017	3
The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems	3
About the Authors	3
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The Legislative Agenda in 13 African Countries: A Comprehensive Database	3
About the Authors	3
Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures	3
Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan	2
Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 140	2
Majority Party Agenda Setting: Picking Fights or Avoiding Them?	2
Issue Information	2
“Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority	2
Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform	2
Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures	2
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Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization	2
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Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering	2
The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection	2