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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics	33
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits	33
Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism	20
About the Authors	16
Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance	16
Congressional town halls	16
Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America	14
Recorded Votes as Attention Booster: How Opposition Parties use Roll Calls and Nonrecorded Votes for Position Taking in the German Bundestag, 2017–21	13
Immigrant detention be banned? Constituent, subconstituent, and elite influence over House Democrat's decision to cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act	13
Lacking Incentives, Not Information. Why Politicians tend to be Less Responsive to Lower‐Income Citizens	10
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About the Authors	9
Success Denied: Social Class and Perceptions of Political Success	9
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Wealth and Policymaking in the U.S. House of Representatives	8
Who works with whom? Collaboration ties in legislative policy‐making networks	8
Historically marginalized groups and ideological representation in legislatures	8
The drama is in the ink: Conflict in written parliamentary questions	7
Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress	7
The Political Economy of High‐Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High‐Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress	7
Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments	7
Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists	7
Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency	7
Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting	7
About the Authors	6

The Institution's Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity	6
How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators	6
District Size and Proximity to the Pork Barrel in Congressional Elections	6
The Legislative Agenda in 13 African Countries: A Comprehensive Database	5
CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e‐Newsletters in Australia	5
The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems	5
Resignation as Promotion? Executive Turnover and Early Departures in the Argentine Congress, 1983–2017	5
Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan	4
About the Authors	4
Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization	4
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	4
About the Authors	4
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“Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority	4
Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming	3
Issue Information	3
Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 140	3
Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures	3
Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures	3
Dancing Around the Issue? Public Opinion and Strategic Vagueness in Parliamentary Speech	3
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Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform	3
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Line‐item vetoes as a coordination mechanism	2
Distinctive Voices: Political Speech, Rhetoric, and the Substantive Representation of Women in European Parliaments	2
How to Cautiously Uncover the “Black Box” of Machine Learning Models for Legislative Scholars	2
The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection	2
District Populations and Partisan Bias	2
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Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering	2
Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System	2
Military Experience and the Use of Force: Congressional AUMF Votes Among Combat and Non‐Combat Veteran Legislators	2
Trade Competitiveness, Constituency Interests, and Legislators' Attitudes Towards Trade Agreements	2