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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · 20d

3️⃣ State & Local Legislatures Prize
🎉 Congratulations to Rob Oldham (Agnes Scott College) for winning the Best Article on State & Local Legislatures Prize!
📖 “Partisan Governance and Minority Party Vetoes: Evidence from State Legislatures” (LSQ, Vol. 49: 617-648)

Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · 20d

2️⃣ Comparative Legislatures Prize
👏 Cheers to Lotte Hargrave (Manchester) for receiving the Best Article in Comparative Legislatures Prize from the APSA Legislative Studies Section!
📖 “Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization” (LSQ, Vol. 49: 429-454)

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · 20d

1️⃣ U.S. Congress Prize
🏆 Congratulations to Ayse Eldes (Princeton), Christian Fong & Kenneth Lowande (Michigan) for winning the Legislative Studies Section Prize for Best Article on U.S. Congress!
📖 “Information and Confrontation in Legislative Oversight” (LSQ, Vol. 49: 227-256)

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · 20d

🏆 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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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · 28d

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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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Explaining How Subnational Politics Shapes Committee Assignment in a Federal Country: The Case of Argentina" by Gabriel Levita (UNLaOficial USalvador) & Victoria Ortiz de Rozas
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Explaining How Subnational Politics Shapes Committee Assignment in a Federal Country: The Case of Argentina

As in many federal countries, subnational politics is the cornerstone of Argentine political careers, and the Congress is a central point for multilevel politics. Although existing literature shows t...

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

"When Politics Is Not Pivotal: Supermajority Debate Rules in State Legislatures" by James M. Curry (Notre Dame) & Robert L. Oldham (Agnes Scott College)
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When Politics Is Not Pivotal: Supermajority Debate Rules in State Legislatures

The 60-vote end-debate threshold is a key institution in the United States Senate. Most winning coalitions require 60 votes, effectively giving veto power to a minority of senators. But do supermajor...

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢 We’re highlighting two new Legislative Studies Quarterly articles this week! 🧵

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Geographical Representation on the Floor: Parliamentary Rules and Legislative Speeches in Party-Centered Contexts" by Edoardo Alberto Viganò (Witten/Herdecke University)

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Geographical Representation on the Floor: Parliamentary Rules and Legislative Speeches in Party‐Centered Contexts

The degree of party control of parliamentary debates influences which MPs take the floor. However, we do not know whether floor access rules matter also for the content of speeches. Drawing on a corp...

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Human Capital Exiting Capitol Hill? Differences in Congressional Staff Turnover by Race and Gender" by Alexander Bolton (@emoryuniversity.bsky.social), Hans Hassell (FSUPoliSci), & Joshua McCrain (University of Utah)

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Human Capital Exiting Capitol Hill? Differences in Congressional Staff Turnover by Race and Gender

Congress relies heavily on congressional staff to function and, as such, members have raised alarms about staff departures and their impact on the institution's capacity. We examine patterns of congr....

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢 New in Legislative Studies Quarterly:
"Promoting a Diverse Bench: An Analysis of Elite Messaging About Descriptive Representation" by Jaclyn Kaslovsky (@washupolisci.bsky.social), Albert H. Rivero (UVA), & Andrew R. Stone (@olemiss.bsky.social)

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Promoting a Diverse Bench: An Analysis of Elite Messaging About Descriptive Representation

Existing work documents how senators use their official communications to explain their Washington activities and build support in the district. However, relatively little remains known about how sen...

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢 Lots of new research in Legislative Studies Quarterly!

Check out the latest three articles in the🧵below:

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Aug 31

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨
The latest Legislative Studies Quarterly (Volume 50, Issue 3) is here --- bringing cutting-edge research on legislatures around the world. 📘✨
Check out the full issue 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19399162...

Legislative Studies Quarterly: Vol 50, No 3

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Aug 26

🔍 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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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · Aug 25

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/...

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Aug 26

🗺️ 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.

Read now: 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Jul 12

"Are State Legislative Leaders Moderates?" by Boris Shor (@uh.edu)
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Are State Legislative Leaders Moderates?

Spatial models of legislative organization predict that elected leaders will be moderates with respect to their constituency, the party caucus. However, empirical studies of leader positioning in Con...

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Jul 12

"Success Denied: Social Class and Perceptions of Political Success" by Daniel Devine (@unisouthampton.bsky.social), Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte (@unisouthampton.bsky.social), and Matt Ryan (@unisouthampton.bsky.social)
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Success Denied: Social Class and Perceptions of Political Success

The working class are poorly represented in democratic institutions across the world, despite substantial evidence that the public do not discriminate against working-class candidates and view them m....

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Jul 12

"The (Sometimes Untraceable) Origins of Policy Ideas in Congress: An Analysis of Seven Landmark Laws" by Jeremy Gelman (@unevadareno.bsky.social)
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The (Sometimes Untraceable) Origins of Policy Ideas in Congress: An Analysis of Seven Landmark Laws

Research on lawmaking suggests enactments are constructed in various ways. Although multiple approaches are documented in the literature, political scientists do not know which are used more often. I...

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Jul 12

🚨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! 🧵

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Jun 5

"Party Considerations for Renomination in Pre-Electoral Coalitions" by @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social (Washington University in St. Louis) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Party Considerations for Renomination in Pre‐Electoral Coalitions

Pre-electoral coalitions are common across diverse political contexts. In this letter, I examine their impact on one of the most consequential functions of political parties: the candidate selection ...

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Jun 5

"Dancing Around the Issue? Public Opinion and Strategic Vagueness in Parliamentary Speech" by Aleksandra Khokhlova (@polscileiden.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dancing Around the Issue? Public Opinion and Strategic Vagueness in Parliamentary Speech

Legislators use parliamentary speeches to communicate with their relevant audiences. However, we know little about how they adapt their communication styles to public opinion dynamics and political c...

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · Jun 5

🚨 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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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · May 27

Fresh insights on representation, party systems, and legislative behavior.

#PoliSci #LSQ #ComparativePolitics #Congress #Legislatures

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Legislative Studies Quarterly @lsqjournal.bsky.social · May 27

🆕 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

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