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Legislative Studies Quarterly @LSQjournal

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

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"Who Controls the Legislative Process? Party Cartels, Committee Gatekeepers, and Subcommittee Activity in the South Korean National Assembly" by Sunwoo Kwak, Eunmi Cho, and Sinjae Kang, contributing from @yonsei_u onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Who Controls the Legislative Process? Party Cartels, Committee Gatekeepers, and Subcommittee...

This study examines legislative gatekeeping in the South Korean National Assembly by analyzing bill review subcommittee meeting frequency from 2004–2024. Unlike the U.S. Congress, where majority...

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"Claiming and Blaming: How Minority Party Status Shapes Filibuster Framing in the U.S. Senate" by @JessieMunson (@uwpolisci) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Claiming and Blaming: How Minority Party Status Shapes Filibuster Framing in the U.S. Senate

Why do senators choose to talk about filibustering, a tool widely associated with obstruction and gridlock? This paper examines how senators strategically reference filibustering in official commun...

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"Selective Activism: Co-Partisan Engagement in US Foreign Policy" by Gyung-Ho Jeong (@UBC) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Selective Activism: Co‐Partisan Engagement in US Foreign Policy

In the US Congress, rising partisanship in foreign policymaking has heightened pressure on co-partisans to defer to the president. Simultaneously, post–Cold War expectations for congressional...

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"Parliamentary Debate and Job Market Signaling in Westminster Systems" by @pat__leslie (@ourANU) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Parliamentary Debate and Job Market Signaling in Westminster Systems

This article examines parliamentary speech as a job-market signal in Westminster systems, where ministers are selected from the legislature under conditions of informational asymmetry. Building on...

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"Do Women Legislators Legislate Differently Than Men on Gun-Related Policy? A Suggestive Yes" by Patrick Cunha Silva (@LoyolaChicago), @markarian_g (@LoyolaChicago), and Brady Mudge (@LoyolaChicago), is available to read at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Do Women Legislators Legislate Differently Than Men on Gun‐Related Policy? A Suggestive Yes

Polls show that men are less likely to support gun restrictions than women, but do voter preferences translate into elite behavior? To answer this question, we use a novel dataset of hand-coded...

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📚 Recent from Legislative Studies Quarterly: Explore three new articles published in the last few weeks covering the latest research in legislative politics
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"Misrepresented or Miss Represented? Gendered Priority Responsiveness in Norway" by @SDybesland (@EUI_EU) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Misrepresented or Miss Represented? Gendered Priority Responsiveness in Norway

This article introduces the concept of priority responsiveness, which assesses the extent to which representatives' issue priorities reflect those of male and female citizens equally. Arguing that...

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"Ministries That We Want: Legislative Behavior and Signaling of Portfolio Salience" by Fernando Meireles (@uerj_iesp), Magna Inácio (@ufmg), and Rosiene Guerra (@ufmg) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Ministries That We Want: Legislative Behavior and Signaling of Portfolio Salience

Measuring the value of cabinet portfolios is a fundamental task in the study of coalition politics. Yet existing measures are often static, have limited coverage, or assume that all parties value...

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"Control or Representation? Government-Opposition Dynamics and the Use of Geographic Parliamentary Questions" by @MortenHarmening (@UniHannover) is available to read at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Control or Representation? Government‐Opposition Dynamics and the Use of Geographic Parliamentary...

Parliamentary questions (PQs) are key instruments of legislative oversight and representation. However, research often treats these functions in isolation—overlooking important variation within the...

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Happy Sunday ☀️ New in Legislative Studies Quarterly: "Divergent Position Taking Under Uncertainty With an Application to Chile's 2021–2022 Constituent Convention" by Jorge Fabrega (@UDD_cl @Princeton) and John Londregan (@UDD_cl @Princeton) 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Divergent Position Taking Under Uncertainty With an Application to Chile's 2021–2022 Constituent...

Sometimes politicians must take indelible public stances under unresolved uncertainty about an outcome they cannot control, for example, consider the minority on a proposal that is bound to pass....

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"Gender, Party Status, and Lawmaking in the American States: A Reassessment of Legislative Effectiveness" by Abby Child (@BYU), Laura Pacheco (@BYU), and @mbarber83 (@BYU) is available to read at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Gender, Party Status, and Lawmaking in the American States: A Reassessment of Legislative Effecti...

Volden et al.'s study of the US House of Representatives found that congresswomen in the minority party exhibit greater legislative effectiveness than their male counterparts, while effectiveness...

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Read it now... "Partisan and Ideological Bias Among the Attentive Public: Evidence From Witness Slips in the Illinois General Assembly" by @MichaelRKistner (@UHPoliticalSci) and Michael Pomirchy (@Stanford) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Partisan and Ideological Bias Among the Attentive Public: Evidence From Witness Slips in the...

Prior work conjectures that representational gaps may arise due to biases in who contacts politicians. However, direct measures of legislator contact by members of the public are elusive. This study...

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"A Rich Woman's World? Wealth and Gendered Paths to Office" by Rachel Bernhard (@NuffieldCollege), @aeggers (@UChicago), and Marko Klašnja (@Georgetown) is available to read now at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

A Rich Woman's World? Wealth and Gendered Paths to Office

We introduce and seek to explain a new and surprising fact about members of the US Congress: since at least the 1980s, Congresswomen have been substantially wealthier than Congressmen serving in the...

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New and open access 📚📖 "Cover Bills" by Nicolas Florez (@UMich) and Christian Fong (@UMich) is available to read at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Cover Bills

Legislators sometimes vote on bills that fail but, in the process, allow lawmakers to take an extreme position before ultimately voting to compromise. We call these proposals Cover Bills. Through...

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📘 New in Legislative Studies Quarterly: "Electoral Reform and Legislative Behavior: Evidence From Denmark's Transition to Proportional Representation" by @MartinEjnar (@Bruneluni) Read it now at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Electoral Reform and Legislative Behavior: Evidence From Denmark's Transition to Proportional...

This article examines the effect of electoral system reform on legislative speech-making by Members of Parliament (MPs), focusing on the case of Denmark's 1918 shift from single-member districts...

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As we wrap up 2025, we’re taking one last look at the scholarship that closed out the year in Legislative Studies Quarterly Here are 7 December articles worth revisiting before we head into 2026 🧵
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"Legislative Control and Partisan Disparities in Dyadic Representation" by Daniel Butler (@WashUPoliSci), @ZoeNemerever (@AuburnU), and Steven Rogers (@SLU_Official)
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"Who Shows Up? Legislative Attendance by Electoral Seat Type in Bangladesh and Pakistan" by Dipak Kumar Biswas (@WestVirginiaU) and @erikherron (@WestVirginiaU)
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