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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics	30
Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance	28
Congressional town halls	16
Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism	15
About the Authors	13
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits	13
Success Denied: Social Class and Perceptions of Political Success	12
Immigrant detention be banned? Constituent, subconstituent, and elite influence over House Democrat's decision to cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act	12
Constituency Size and Evaluations of Government	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
Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America	9
Lacking Incentives, Not Information. Why Politicians tend to be Less Responsive to Lower‐Income Citizens	9
About the Authors	8
Who works with whom? Collaboration ties in legislative policy‐making networks	7
Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress	7
Historically marginalized groups and ideological representation in legislatures	7
The drama is in the ink: Conflict in written parliamentary questions	7
Violence among State House Candidates during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	7
Wealth and Policymaking in the U.S. House of Representatives	7
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Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting	6
Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments	6
Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists	5
The Political Economy of High‐Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High‐Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress	5
The Institution's Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity	5

Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency	5
About the Authors	4
Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures	4
About the Authors	4
The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems	4
About the Authors	4
Resignation as Promotion? Executive Turnover and Early Departures in the Argentine Congress, 1983–2017	4
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
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What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	4
How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators	4
Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming	3
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Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan	3
Dancing Around the Issue? Public Opinion and Strategic Vagueness in Parliamentary Speech	3
Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform	3
Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization	3
“Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority	3
Issue Information	3
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Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures	2
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Trade Competitiveness, Constituency Interests, and Legislators' Attitudes Towards Trade Agreements	2
Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 140	2
Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System	2
The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection	2
Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering	2
How to Cautiously Uncover the “Black Box” of Machine Learning Models for Legislative Scholars	2
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