Legislative Studies Quarterly

Article	Citations
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics	30
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits	30
Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism	18
Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance	16
Congressional town halls	15
About the Authors	14
Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America	14
Success Denied: Social Class and Perceptions of Political Success	13
Immigrant detention be banned? Constituent, subconstituent, and elite influence over House Democrat's decision to cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act	12
Lacking Incentives, Not Information. Why Politicians tend to be Less Responsive to Lower‐Income Citizens	11
Recorded Votes as Attention Booster: How Opposition Parties use Roll Calls and Nonrecorded Votes for Position Taking in the German Bundestag, 2017–21	10
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Violence among State House Candidates during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	9
Who works with whom? Collaboration ties in legislative policy‐making networks	8
About the Authors	8
Wealth and Policymaking in the U.S. House of Representatives	8
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Historically marginalized groups and ideological representation in legislatures	7
The drama is in the ink: Conflict in written parliamentary questions	7
Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress	7
Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments	6
Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency	6
The Institution's Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity	5
The Political Economy of High‐Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High‐Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress	5
About the Authors	5

Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting	5
District Size and Proximity to the Pork Barrel in Congressional Elections	5
Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists	5
The Legislative Agenda in 13 African Countries: A Comprehensive Database	4
CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e‐Newsletters in Australia	4
About the Authors	4
Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan	4
About the Authors	4
The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems	4
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	4
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Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization	4
Resignation as Promotion? Executive Turnover and Early Departures in the Argentine Congress, 1983–2017	4
How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators	4
“Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority	4
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Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform	3
Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering	3
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Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 140	3
Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures	3
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Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures	3
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Dancing Around the Issue? Public Opinion and Strategic Vagueness in Parliamentary Speech	2
Military Experience and the Use of Force: Congressional AUMF Votes Among Combat and Non‐Combat Veteran Legislators	2
Distinctive Voices: Political Speech, Rhetoric, and the Substantive Representation of Women in European Parliaments	2
Men Are From Mars, and Women Are From Venus? Political Ambition of Women and Men Within the Legislature	2
How to Cautiously Uncover the “Black Box” of Machine Learning Models for Legislative Scholars	2
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Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System	2
Trade Competitiveness, Constituency Interests, and Legislators' Attitudes Towards Trade Agreements	2
Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming	2
The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection	2
Legislative Pensions and Re‐election Seeking: Evidence from Canadian Legislatures	1
Who Runs for Higher Office? Electoral Institutions and Level‐Hopping Attempts in Germany's State Legislatures	1
Competence in the Eye of the Electorate: Appearance, Incumbency, and Vote Shares	1
Interpersonal Relationships and Legislative Collaboration in Congress	1
How Do General Election Incentives Affect the Visible and Invisible Primary?	1
Party Considerations for Renomination in Pre‐Electoral Coalitions	1
About the Authors	1
Politicians and Scandals that Damage the Party Brand	1
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Attention to the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Twitter: Partisan Differences Among U.S. State Legislators	1
When voting no is not enough: Legislative brawling and obstruction in Korea	1
Line‐item vetoes as a coordination mechanism	1
Why Do Young Men Oppose Gender Quotas? Group Threat and Backlash to Legislative Gender Quotas	1
Ends versus means? Ideology and support for repeals in the mass public	1
No Experience Required: Early Donations and Amateur Candidate Success in Primary Elections	1

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Strategic Behavior in State Multimember Districts: Does Fielding One Candidate offer a Notable Advantage?	1
Misogyny, politics, and social media determinants of hostile engagement against women parliamentarians on Twitter	1
Changes in the Rules of the Lawmaking Process and the Success of Presidential Bills: Chile, 1990–2018	1
District Populations and Partisan Bias	1
The logic of ambitious legislators in fluid party systems	1
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A Measure of Congressional Committee Influence	1
About the Authors	1
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Conducting Interview Projects in the US Congress: Analyzing the Methods of Experts in the Field	0
Policy Monitoring and Ministerial Survival: Evidence from Multiparty Presidentialism	0
How Politicians Downplay Lower‐Educated Citizens' Opinions	0
The foundational effects of gender: Exploring Latin American elites’ perceptions of corruption	0
Is Incumbency Advantage Gendered?	0
What Legislators Tell Us About Legislatures: Evidence From PELA‐USAL	0
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About the Authors	0
Analyzing gender gaps in bicameral legislatures: How asymmetrical institutions affect the supply and demand for female candidates	0
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A place to speak and be heard? Parliamentary speech and media attention in Estonia, 2011–2019	0
‘No es la democracia que míster superman quiere imponernos desde Washington’: An analysis of populist attitudes on democracy from Latin American legislators	0
Explaining How Subnational Politics Shapes Committee Assignment in a Federal Country: The Case of Argentina	0
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Already Gone: Retaining Women in State Legislatures	0
Rules and the Containment of Conflict in Congress	0
Talking to the Populist Radical Right: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Debates	0
The Advantage of Incumbents in Coalitional Bargaining	0
Underneath the Surface: Unpacking Gendered Dynamics in Legislative Oversight in Italian Municipalities	0
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Congressional Bargaining and the Distribution of Grants	0
Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914	0
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Prior Experience and State Legislative Effectiveness	0
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Black Trust inUSLegislatures	0
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Institutional opportunism: How electoral fortunes shape preferences for power‐sharing institutions in Latin America	0
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About the Authors	0
Strategies of Control: Members of Congress and Policy Outcomes	0
Still “the Domain of Men?” Gender Quotas and Women's Inclusion in Local Politics in Italy	0
The Promise and Peril of Constituent Interactions: The Determinants of Town Hall Participation Among Members of Congress	0
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Constituency Focus in Party‐Centered Systems: How Individual, Party, and District‐Level Factors Shape Parliamentary Questions in South Africa	0
Issue Competition in Parliamentary Speeches? A Computer‐based Content Analysis of Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat	0
Closer to the people? Determinants of citizen–MP contact in Africa	0
Polarization and Place‐Based Representation in US State Legislatures	0
In the Eyes of the Beholder? Understanding Policymakers' Perceptions of Corruption	0
State Policy and National Representation: Marijuana Politics in American Federalism	0
Physicians in congress: Professional backgrounds and legislative effectiveness	0
About the Authors	0
Electoral reform and fragmented polarization: New evidence from Taiwan legislative roll calls	0
Rhetorical and Revealed Opposition to Compromise Among Local and State Legislators	0
Human Capital Exiting Capitol Hill? Differences in Congressional Staff Turnover by Race and Gender	0
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The Language of Delegation: An NLP Analysis of Congressional Bill Text	0
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Do Your Job, Keep Your Seat: The Causal Effect of MPs' Legislation on Reelection	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
How Filibuster Rhetoric Informs Perceptions of Politicians	0
When Politics Is Not Pivotal: Supermajority Debate Rules in State Legislatures	0
Interest Groups and Intra‐Party Conflict on Scored Votes	0
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Who gets to speak for the party? How parliamentary party groups select spokespersons	0
Legislating landlords: Private interests, issue emphasis, and policy positions	0
Are State Legislative Leaders Moderates?	0
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Driving Legislators' Policy Preferences: Constituent Commutes and Gas Taxes	0
Engaged Hawks and Quiet Doves: Introducing the National Defense Engagement Index	0
Coalition Governance under Separation of Powers: Shadowing by Committee in Coalitional Presidentialism	0
Proving Her Strength: The Partisan and Gendered Implications of Legislative Obstruction	0
Foxes and Hedgehogs in Legislatures: Why Do Some MPs Become Policy Specialists and Others Generalists?	0
Loyal Activists? Party Socialization and Dissenting Voting Behavior in Parliament	0
Promoting a Diverse Bench: An Analysis of Elite Messaging About Descriptive Representation	0
Minor Party Major Change: Democratic Environmental Re‐Prioritization in Response to Green Party Competition	0
Bureaucratic Responsiveness under Dynamic Political Settings: Experimental Evidence from Local Governments	0

Geographical Representation Under a Single Nationwide District: The Case of the Netherlands	0
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Getting what you pay for: Resource allocations and legislative success	0
The Link Between Educational Socialization, Descriptive Representation, and Substantive Representation	0
Effects of Increased Transparency on Political Divides and MP Behavior: Evidence from Televised Question Hours in the Finnish Parliament	0
Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees, and Interbranch Conflict	0
The Partisan Politics of Rainy Day Fund Investment	0
A Good Partisan? Ideology, Loyalty, and Public Evaluations of Members of Congress	0
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Take (Her) to the Limit: Term Limits do Not Diminish Women's Overperformance in Legislative Office	0
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Partisan Governance and Minority Party Vetoes: Evidence from State Legislatures	0
Geographic representation and requests for federal funds in the U.S. senate	0
About the Authors	0
Policy Content of Legislative Vetoes and Success of Presidential Activism Under Semi‐Presidentialism	0
Legislation Against the Odds: Overcoming Ideological Gridlock in EU Decision‐Making	0
Are Subnational Policymakers' Policy Preferences Nationalized? Evidence from Surveys of Township, Municipal, County, and State Officials	0
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Personality and political representation—How personality traits shape MPs' attitudes toward gender equality	0
Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets	0
Information and Confrontation in Legislative Oversight	0
Independents in Parliament: Temporary Status or Final Destination?	0
Does Electing Women Reduce Corruption? A Regression Discontinuity Approach	0
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Bicameralism Hinges on Legislative Professionalism	0
Closing the Gap: An Analysis of Women's Representation in State Legislatures and the Gender Pay Gap	0
When Do Interest Groups Lobby Legislators in Strong Presidential Systems?	0
The Effect of Policy Traceability on Legislative Incentives	0
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Social media versus surveys: A new scalable approach to understanding legislators' discourse	0
The (Sometimes Untraceable) Origins of Policy Ideas in Congress: An Analysis of Seven Landmark Laws	0
Maybe later: Term limits and strategy behind candidate entry	0
Parliamentary Control of the Executive and the Duration of Government Formation	0
The origins of centralized agenda control at Westminster: Consensus or controversy?	0
The Separation of Powers and Policymaking in the US States	0
Geographical Representation on the Floor: Parliamentary Rules and Legislative Speeches in Party‐Centered Contexts	0
Experimental Evidence of the Benefits and Risks of Credit Claiming and Pork Busting	0