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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Legislator turnover and lobbyist exits	30
The Last Shall Be Last: Ethnic, Racial, and Nativist Bias in Distributive Politics	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
Can legislative majorities shape budgets? A comparative analysis of presidential systems in Latin America	14
About the Authors	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
Violence among State House Candidates during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	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
About the Authors	8
Following the leaders: Asymmetric party messaging in the U.S. Congress	7
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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
Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency	6
Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments	6
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 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
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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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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Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures	3
Issue Information	3
Incentivizing anticorruption reform: Evidence from a natural experiment in Mexican subnational legislatures	3
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
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
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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