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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits	27
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics	22
Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism	12
Lacking Incentives, Not Information. Why Politicians tend to be Less Responsive to Lower‐Income Citizens	11
Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance	11
About the Authors	11
Congressional town halls	11
Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America	10
Immigrant detention be banned? Constituent, subconstituent, and elite influence over House Democrat's decision to cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act	9
Recorded Votes as Attention Booster: How Opposition Parties use Roll Calls and Nonrecorded Votes for Position Taking in the German Bundestag, 2017–21	8
About the Authors	8
Constituency Size and Evaluations of Government	8
Violence among State House Candidates during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	7
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Wealth and Policymaking in the U.S. House of Representatives	6
Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress	6
Who works with whom? Collaboration ties in legislative policy‐making networks	6
Historically marginalized groups and ideological representation in legislatures	6
The drama is in the ink: Conflict in written parliamentary questions	6
Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments	5
Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists	5
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
Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting	5
Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency	5

About the Authors	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
The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems	4
CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e‐Newsletters in Australia	4
About the Authors	3
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Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures	3
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“Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority	3
Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization	3
Issue Information	3
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	3
About the Authors	3
The Legislative Agenda in 13 African Countries: A Comprehensive Database	3
Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform	3
Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan	3
About the Authors	2
Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures	2
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The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection	2
Military Experience and the Use of Force: Congressional AUMF Votes Among Combat and Non‐Combat Veteran Legislators	2
Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 140	2
How to Cautiously Uncover the “Black Box” of Machine Learning Models for Legislative Scholars	2
Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System	2
Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering	2
Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming	2
Majority Party Agenda Setting: Picking Fights or Avoiding Them?	2