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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets	19
On Whose Door to Knock? Organized Interests’ Strategic Pursuit of Access to Members of Congress	14
Problem Solving and the Demand for Expert Information in Congress	12
Out‐of‐District Donors and Representation in the US House	12
Responsiveness and Democratic Accountability: Observational Evidence from an Experiment in a Mixed‐Member Proportional System	11
Why Do Young Men Oppose Gender Quotas? Group Threat and Backlash to Legislative Gender Quotas	11
Distinctive Voices: Political Speech, Rhetoric, and the Substantive Representation of Women in European Parliaments	11
The Effects of Women's Descriptive Representation on Government Behavior	10
Bureaucrats as Lawmakers	9
Small in Size but Powerful in Parliament? The Legislative Performance of Minority Governments	9
Politicians and Scandals that Damage the Party Brand	8
Attention to the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators	8
Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System	8
Is Incumbency Advantage Gendered?	7
No Experience Required: Early Donations and Amateur Candidate Success in Primary Elections	7
Does Electing Women Reduce Corruption? A Regression Discontinuity Approach	6
Are Subnational Policymakers' Policy Preferences Nationalized? Evidence from Surveys of Township, Municipal, County, and State Officials	6
Constituency Size and Evaluations of Government	6
The Institution's Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity	6
Measuring Congressional Partisanship and Its Consequences	5
Changes in the Rules of the Lawmaking Process and the Success of Presidential Bills: Chile, 1990–2018	5
The Advantage of Incumbents in Coalitional Bargaining	5
Geographical Representation Under a Single Nationwide District: The Case of the Netherlands	4
Nonelectoral Motivations to Represent Marginalized Groups in a Democracy: Evidence from an Unelected Legislature	4
Talking to the Populist Radical Right: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Debates	4

Violence among State House Candidates during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	4
Loyal Activists? Party Socialization and Dissenting Voting Behavior in Parliament	4
The Effects of High‐Information Environments on Legislative Behavior in the US House of Representatives	4
Heeding to the Losers: Legislators' Trade‐Policy Preferences and Legislative Behavior	3
Resignation as Promotion? Executive Turnover and Early Departures in the Argentine Congress, 1983–2017	3
Legislative Capacity in Germany's Parliaments	3
Unilateral Inaction: Congressional Gridlock, Interbranch Conflict, and Public Evaluations of Executive Power	3
Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform	3
Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat	3
A Clarity Model of District Representation: District Magnitude and Pork Priorities	3
Policy Monitoring and Ministerial Survival: Evidence from Multiparty Presidentialism	3
The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems	3
The Legislative Agenda in 13 African Countries: A Comprehensive Database	3
The Politics of Select Committee Assignments in the British House of Commons	3
Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism	3
Foxes and Hedgehogs in Legislatures: Why Do Some MPs Become Policy Specialists and Others Generalists?	2
Black Trust inUSLegislatures	2
Bicameralism Hinges on Legislative Professionalism	2
Interpersonal Relationships and Legislative Collaboration in Congress	2
In the Eyes of the Beholder? Understanding Policymakers' Perceptions of Corruption	2
Parliaments Day‐by‐Day: A New Open Source Database to Answer the Question of Who Was in What Parliament, Party, and Party‐group, and When	2
Driving Legislators' Policy Preferences: Constituent Commutes and Gas Taxes	2
Transaction Costs and Congressional Careers: The Effect of Flight Availability on Retirement Decisions	2
Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants	2
Government Type and Public Spending in Africa	2
A Good Partisan? Ideology, Loyalty, and Public Evaluations of Members of Congress	2
It Takes a Coalition: The Community Impacts of Collaboration	2
Experimental Evidence of the Benefits and Risks of Credit Claiming and Pork Busting	2
Partisanship and the Effectiveness of Personal Vote Seeking	2
When Do Interest Groups Lobby Legislators in Strong Presidential Systems?	2
Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering	2
Constituency Focus in Party‐Centered Systems: How Individual, Party, and District‐Level Factors Shape Parliamentary Questions in South Africa	2
Legislative Constraints, Ideological Conflict, and the Timing of Executive Unilateralism	2
Rules and the Containment of Conflict in Congress	2