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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics	28
Anti‐Democratic Influence: The Effect of Citizens United on State Democratic Performance	26
Congressional town halls	14
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits	12
Success Denied: Social Class and Perceptions of Political Success	12
Model Bills, State Imitation, and the Political Safeguards of Federalism	12
About the Authors	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	11
Constituency Size and Evaluations of Government	9
Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America	8
About the Authors	8
Immigrant detention be banned? Constituent, subconstituent, and elite influence over House Democrat's decision to cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act	8
Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress	7
Violence among State House Candidates during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	7
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The drama is in the ink: Conflict in written parliamentary questions	6
Who works with whom? Collaboration ties in legislative policy‐making networks	6
Wealth and Policymaking in the U.S. House of Representatives	6
The Institution's Knowledge: Congressional Staff Experience and Committee Productivity	6
Historically marginalized groups and ideological representation in legislatures	6
Responsive rhetoric: Evidence from congressional redistricting	5
Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists	5
Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments	5
Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency	5

The Legislative Agenda in 13 African Countries: A Comprehensive Database	4
The Party Personnel Datasets: Advancing Comparative Research in Party Behavior and Legislative Organization Across Electoral Systems	4
Resignation as Promotion? Executive Turnover and Early Departures in the Argentine Congress, 1983–2017	4
CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e‐Newsletters in Australia	4
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures	4
About the Authors	4
How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators	4
About the Authors	4
The Political Economy of High‐Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High‐Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress	4
About the Authors	3
Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization	3
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Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures	3
Issue Information	3
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Lesser of Two Evils: Allocating Resources to Opposition Districts in Pakistan	3
“Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority	3
Electoral Incentives and Geographical Representation: Evidence from an Italian Electoral Reform	3
Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming	2
Dancing Around the Issue? Public Opinion and Strategic Vagueness in Parliamentary Speech	2
About the Authors	2
Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering	2
Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures	2
Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System	2
How to Cautiously Uncover the “Black Box” of Machine Learning Models for Legislative Scholars	2
Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 140	2
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The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection	2