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Legislative Studies Quarterly
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The official journal of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19399162
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🏆 The APSA Legislative Studies Section has announced its prizes for the best articles in Legislative Studies Quarterly!

This year’s winners highlight important research on Congress, comparative legislatures, and state & local politics.

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September 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Check out "Rhetorical and Revealed Opposition to Compromise Among Local and State Legislators" by Melody Crowder-Meyer (@davidsoncollege.bsky.social). Link below 👇
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Rhetorical and Revealed Opposition to Compromise Among Local and State Legislators
Policymaking in democratic governments requires compromise, yet polarized legislators face mixed incentives around compromise. These incentives also vary by gender and party, with women and Democrats....
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September 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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📢 We’re highlighting two new Legislative Studies Quarterly articles this week! 🧵
September 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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📢 Lots of new research in Legislative Studies Quarterly!

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September 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨
The latest Legislative Studies Quarterly (Volume 50, Issue 3) is here --- bringing cutting-edge research on legislatures around the world. 📘✨
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Legislative Studies Quarterly: Vol 50, No 3
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August 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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🔍 A spotlight from earlier this month in LSQ:

"Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees, and Interbranch Conflict"
by Jeremiah Cha (@harvard.edu) & Jon Rogowski (UChicago). Access it at the link below.

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Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees, and Interbranch Conflict
We study how committees influence policy outcomes in the context of appropriations. Since the birth of modern political science, the power of the purse has been recognized as a primary institutional ...
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August 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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New open access @lsqjournal.bsky.social article from me & Veronica Judson shows that legislative districts with larger populations experience more partisan gerrymandering onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🗺️ Do bigger districts make gerrymandering easier?
@bcburden.bsky.social & Veronica J. Judson find that larger district populations give mapmakers more “raw material” to distort boundaries, leading to less compact and more biased maps.

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District Populations and Partisan Bias
We investigate whether the differing population sizes of legislative districts affect the ability to engage in partisan gerrymandering. We conjecture that larger populations facilitate partisan gerry...
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August 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🚨New LSQ articles are out! There's a lot of exciting new research to dive into -- covering policy origins, class & political success, and legislative leadership. Check them out in the thread below now! 🧵
July 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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🚨 Two new articles just dropped in Legislative Studies Quarterly!
From strategic vagueness in parliament to party dynamics in coalitions — this month’s pieces deliver big insights. 🧠📊

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June 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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🆕 New research in LSQ:

📌 Wealth and Policymaking in the U.S. House – Darrian Stacy
📌 Independents in Parliament – Ibenskas, Sałek-Lipcean, Golder & Sikk
📌 What Legislators Tell Us About Legislatures: Evidence From PELA-USAL – Alcántara Sáez, García Montero, Morgenstern & Rivas Pérez
May 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Also available now: "Strategies of Control: Members of Congress and Policy Outcomes" by Erinn Lauterbach (Villanova University) and Melinda N. Ritchie (Ohio State)
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Strategies of Control: Members of Congress and Policy Outcomes
Despite Congress' Article I powers, challenges within and outside of Congress prevent lawmakers from influencing policy outcomes. Legislators confront obstacles when trying to pass bills, and legisla...
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April 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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"Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming" by Peter T. McLaughlin (University of Rhode Island) is open access and available to read now on the LSQ website!
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Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming
How do incumbents in the US Congress turn federally funded district projects into electoral gains? Clarifying the connection between federal spending and congressional elections is critical for under...
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April 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Read it now --- "Military Experience and the Use of Force: Congressional AUMF Votes Among Combat and Non-Combat Veteran Legislators" by Matthew Fiorelli (United States Military Academy, West Point) and Heather Jebb (United States Military Academy, West Point).
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Military Experience and the Use of Force: Congressional AUMF Votes Among Combat and Non‐Combat Veteran Legislators
Does prior military experience affect the way members of Congress vote when authorizing the use of military force abroad? Some scholars argue that military experience increases hawkishness, while oth....
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April 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"Policy Content of Legislative Vetoes and Success of Presidential Activism Under Semi-Presidentialism" by
Mažvydas Jastramskis (Vilnius University) and Lukas Pukelis (Vilnius University) is available to read at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Policy Content of Legislative Vetoes and Success of Presidential Activism Under Semi‐Presidentialism
The power to veto legislation and return it to parliament is one of the most prominent presidential powers and a major source of presidential activism. Until now, research has mostly focused on the f...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Read it now -- "The Separation of Powers and Policymaking in the US States" by Andrew M. O. Ballard (FSU Political Science), James M. Curry, (University of Utah), and Mary A. Kroeger (UNC). Access the article at the link below.
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The Separation of Powers and Policymaking in the US States
Do the separation of powers dynamics in the United States affect policymaking outcomes? Scholars and observers of national politics have long expected that they do, but since there has been little me...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Read it now: "Analyzing gender gaps in bicameral legislatures: How asymmetrical institutions affect the supply and demand for female candidates" by @yoshiono.bsky.social (Waseda University), Yuko Kasuya (Keio University), and Hirofumi Miwa (Gakushuin University/Harvard University).
March 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨

The latest issue of Legislative Studies Quarterly (Vol. 50, Issue 1) is here! 🏛️📖

Explore research on electoral reform in Taiwan, geographic representation in the U.S. Senate, party messaging in Congress, and more.

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March 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Rena Sung's "The Political Economy of High-Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High-Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress" is also available to read now! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Political Economy of High‐Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High‐Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress
What drives politicians' support for high-skilled immigration policy? I argue that politicians support different types of high-skilled immigration policy by balancing business demand for skilled fore...
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March 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Dr. Daniel Casey's new article and data set "CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e-Newsletters in Australia" is available to read now at the link below. @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social
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CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e‐Newsletters in Australia
This research note introduces CanberraInbox, a new, regularly updated dataset comprising the full text of all e-newsletters from Australian members of Parliament. The dataset addresses a gap in study...
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March 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"'Stronger': Learning From Nevada's Women-Led Legislative Majority" by Noah Haynes (Philipps-University Marburg) and
@jordanmbutcher.bsky.social (Arkansas State) is ready to read at the link below!
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“Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority
The gendered makeup of state legislatures has been in a constant state of change since women were first allowed to serve in office. Through certain periods, there have been accelerations in the rate ...
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March 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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New Article Alert‼️
"Who gets to speak for the party? How parliamentary party groups select spokespersons" by Tim Mickler
(@polscileiden.bsky.social), @simonotjes.bsky.social (@polscileiden.bsky.social) , and David M. Willumsen (@polsciuibk.bsky.social) is available to read now.
Who gets to speak for the party? How parliamentary party groups select spokespersons
Members of parliament (MPs), and by extension, parliamentary party groups (PPGs), have to make decisions about all aspects of public policy. In many parliamentary systems, PPGs subdivide the workload...
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February 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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"Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists" by @bcegerod.bsky.social (Copenhagen Business School),
@hjghassell.bsky.social (FSU), @joshmccrain.bsky.social (University of Utah), and David R. Miller (American University) is available to read now!
February 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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New article from LSQ: "Legislative turnover and lobbyist exits" by James M. Strickland (ASU School of Politics and Global Studies) is available now.

Read about how legislative change shapes lobbying:

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January 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM