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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism	19
Electoral reform and fragmented polarization: New evidence from Taiwan legislative roll calls	12
Issue Information	11
Social media versus surveys: A new scalable approach to understanding legislators' discourse	11
Out‐of‐District Donors and Representation in the US House	10
Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering	9
Politicians and Scandals that Damage the Party Brand	8
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Do Voters Know Enough to Punish Out‐of‐Step Congressional Candidates?	7
Small in Size but Powerful in Parliament? The Legislative Performance of Minority Governments	6
Effects of Increased Transparency on Political Divides and MP Behavior: Evidence from Televised Question Hours in the Finnish Parliament	6
Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance	6
Strategic Behavior in State Multimember Districts: Does Fielding One Candidate offer a Notable Advantage?	6
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics	5
Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures	5
The origins of centralized agenda control at Westminster: Consensus or controversy?	4
Ends versus means? Ideology and support for repeals in the mass public	4
Personality and political representation—How personality traits shape MPs' attitudes toward gender equality	4
Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 140	4
Is Incumbency Advantage Gendered?	4
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits	3
Constituency Size and Evaluations of Government	3

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Congressional town halls	3
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State Policy and National Representation: Marijuana Politics in American Federalism	3
Policy Monitoring and Ministerial Survival: Evidence from Multiparty Presidentialism	3
A place to speak and be heard? Parliamentary speech and media attention in Estonia, 2011–2019	3
Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System	3
Bicameralism Hinges on Legislative Professionalism	3
No Experience Required: Early Donations and Amateur Candidate Success in Primary Elections	3
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Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America	2
The Politics of Select Committee Assignments in the British House of Commons	2
Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants	2
About the Authors	2
How to Cautiously Uncover the “Black Box” of Machine Learning Models for Legislative Scholars	2
Issue Information	2
Unilateral Inaction: Congressional Gridlock, Interbranch Conflict, and Public Evaluations of Executive Power	2
How Filibuster Rhetoric Informs Perceptions of Politicians	2
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About the Authors	2
Information and Confrontation in Legislative Oversight	2
The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection	2
Recorded Votes as Attention Booster: How Opposition Parties use Roll Calls and Nonrecorded Votes for Position Taking in the German Bundestag, 2017–21	2