Volume 27, Number 1, January 2004
This section
contains a listing of papers in the area of legislative studies that have
been presented at professional conventions in recent months. Entries were
taken either from preliminary or official convention programs. The following
meetings are represented:
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- APSA: Papers
presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting,
August 28-31, 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- NPSA: Papers
presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, November 6-8, 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- SPSA: Papers
presented at the Southern Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, January 8-11, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana.
APSA
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Author |
Title of Paper |
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Aguayo, Julio |
The Legislature Strikes
Back in Peru?: The Role of Congress in the Demise of Fujimori |
|
Aleman, Eduardo |
Legislative Rules and
the Amending Process: Theory and Evidence from Argentina, Chile and
Mexico |
|
Altman, David |
Cabinet Determinants of
Structural Reforms in Latin America (1990-2000) |
|
Arnold, Charles Benjamin |
A Reappraisal of
Candidate Emergence in Congressional Elections, 1972-2002 |
|
Arter, David |
Cohesion and Discipline
in West European Parliamentary Committees |
|
Bach, Stanley I. |
Bicameralism in
Canberra: Assessing the Legislative Impact of Australian Senate |
|
Bargen, Andrew |
Party Control and its
Ideological Impact in the U.S. Senate |
|
Barkan, Joel D. |
Emerging Legislatures
in Emerging Democracies: The African Experience |
|
Basinger, Scott J.;
Ensley, Michael J. |
Endogeneity Problems in
Congressional Elections Research: Challenger Quality, Campaign Spending,
and Incumbent Vulnerability |
|
Baumgartner, Frank R;
Mahoney, Christine |
Lobbying in Coalition
with Government Allies |
|
Beckmann, Matthew N. |
Presidential Lobbying:
How the White House Promotes the President's Policy Preferences on
Capitol Hill |
|
Bentley, Roisin |
Impact of Constituency
Influences in 2002 Mid-Term Elections |
|
Bratton, Kathleen A. |
Agenda Development in
the U.S. Congress: The Intra-Institutional Diffusion of WomenÍs
Issues, 1973-2000 |
|
Buchler, Justin |
Building Intra-Party
Coalitions with Leadership PACs |
|
Burden, Barry C. |
The Discharge Rule and
Majoitarian Politics in the House of Representatives |
|
Carey, John M. |
Term Limits in the
State Legislatures: Results from a New Survey of the 50 States |
|
Carrubba, Cliff |
Using Roll Call Votes
to Study Legislative Behavior: Demonstrating Roll-Call Vote Selection
Bias in the European Parliament |
|
Carson, Jamie L.;
Marshall, Bryan W. |
Checking Power with
Power: A Strategic Choice Analysis of Presidential Vetoes and
Congressional Overrides |
|
Casellas, Jason P. |
Voting and Delivering:
Latino Representation in Congress |
|
Covington, Cary R.;
Bargen, Andrew |
Divided Government and
the Ideological Character of Bills Enacted by the House of
Representatives, 1963-1996 |
|
Cruz, Jose E. |
Interminority Relations
in Legislative Settings: The Case of African Americans and Latinos |
|
Den Dulk, Kevin R.;
Pickerill, J. Mitchell |
Organized Interests,
Issue Definition, and Congressional Responses to the Supreme Court |
|
Depauw, Sam |
The Iron Cage of Party
on the Government Backbenches in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom |
|
Desposato, Scott W. |
The Impact of Party
Switching on Representation in Brazil |
|
Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto |
Coalition Building
Strategies and Transfer Dependence in MexicoÍs Federalism |
|
Doherty, Leanne |
Level Playing Field for
All? Female Political Leadership and Athletics |
|
Engstrom, Erik J. |
The Partisan
Consequences of Congressional Redistricting in the 19th and
Early 20th Centuries |
|
Escobar-Lemmon, Maria
C.; Avellaneda, Claudia Nancy; Botero, Felipe |
Is Timing Everything?
An Analysis of the Path to Legislative Success in Colombia |
|
Espino III, Rodolfo |
Electoral Influences on
Latino Representation in Congress |
|
Farmer, Rick D.;
Powell, Richard J. |
Moving On, But Not
Moving Out: Comparing Career Paths of Term Limited Legislators |
|
Feldman, Daniel L. |
Legislating or
Litigating Public Policy Change: Gunmaker Tort Liability |
|
Fleisher, Richard;
Bond, Jon R. |
Chamber Medians, Party Medians and Theories of Party Politics in Congress |
|
Flowers, Julianne F. |
If Congress Sends
Preference Signals and the Bureaucracy DoesnÍt Listen, Did
Congress Really Say Anything? |
|
Fogarty, Brian J. |
Out-of-Step: Local News
Media Coverage of U.S. House Members |
|
Frisch, Scott A.;
Kelly, Sean Q. |
ñA Plate at the Table: WomenÍs Committee Requests and WomenÍs Committee Assignments in the U.S. House |
|
Gaddie, Ronald Keith |
Bridging the Loss of Institutional Memory in the Term-Limited Legislature: Institution-Building in the Maine Legislature |
|
Gershtenson, Joseph;
Bishin, Benjamin |
Middle of the Road or Private Cul de Sac? Candidate Proximity to Constituents in U.S. Senate Elections |
|
Gillespie, Andra; Mann,
Christopher Baird |
When Redistricting is
No Longer Black and White: Majority-Minority Districts and the
Maximization of Substantive Representation for Blacks and Latinos in
Congress |
|
Goodman, Craig |
Roll Call Behavior and
Career Advancement: Analyzing Committee Assignments from Reconstruction
to the New Deal |
|
Gordon, Joshua |
The (Dis) Integration
of the House Appropriations Committee: Revisiting the Power of the
Purse in a Partisan Era |
|
Green, Matthew |
Leadership in
Legislative Institutions: Speakers of the House of Representatives and
Acts of Power |
|
Gulati, Girish J. |
Gender and the
Presentation of Self on the WWW |
|
Gulati, Girish J. |
Members of Congress,
Congressional Candidates, and the Presentation of Self on the WWW |
|
Gungor, Gaye |
Institutionalization of
Legislatures and the European Parliament |
|
Hamm, Keith E. Hamm;
Hogan, Robert E. |
The Impact of Campaign
Finance Laws: First Order Effects? |
|
Han, Hahrie C.; Brady,
David W. |
From Here to There and
Back Again: The Changing Impact of Issues on the Political Parties and
Elections in the Post WWII Era |
|
Hart, David M. |
Think Tanks, Expert
Advice and the New U.S. Technology Policy Agenda |
|
Heath, Roseanna;
Taylor-Robinson, Michelle M. |
All Dressed Up With No
Place to Go? Political Ambition in Unitary Political Systems With
Unicameral Legislators |
|
Heller, William B.;
Mershon, Carol A. |
Party Switching in Italian Regional Legislatures, 1996-2001 |
|
Herrera, Richard;
Shaver, Karen |
The Influence of Party on Congressional Decision Making: Bringing Back Constituents |
|
Herrick, Rebekah;
Fisher III, Samuel H. |
Citizen vs. Professional Legislators: Representation in the House of Representatives |
|
Holyoke, Thomas T. |
Madam Chair, We Respectfully Disagree: Interest Group Competition and Congressional Testimony |
|
Jenkins, Jeffery A. |
Partisanship and Contested House Elections, 1789-2000 |
|
Jenkins, Jeffery A.;
Finocchiaro, Charles J. |
Killer Amendments in the Contemporary Congress |
|
Jensen, Jennifer M. |
Gendered Ambition? Career Choices of Staff Members in the U.S. House of Representatives |
|
Jun, Hae-Won |
Initiatives and Amendments: Euro-Parliamentarians' Preferences on the CommissionÍs Discretion |
|
Kernell, Samuel |
To Stay, To Quit, or To Move Up: Explaining the Growth of Careerism in the House of Representatives, 1876-1940 |
|
Kloha, Philip A. |
Majority Party Reliability: Explaining Majority Party Stacking and Ideological Outliers in House Committees |
|
Klotz, Robert J. |
Reed Rules: Leadership and Institutional Change in Congress |
|
Koenig, Thomas |
Conference Committees:
A Comparative Analysis of Bicameral Conflict Resolution |
|
Koger, Gregory |
The Sources of
Congressional Partisanship |
|
Kreuzer, Marcus |
The Calculus of Party
Affiliation in Post-Communist Democracies |
|
Lapinski, John |
Representation and
Public Policy: A Study of the Role of the President and Congress in the
Legislative Process, 1877-2000 |
|
Larson, Bruce A.;
Heberlig, Eric S.; Hetherington, Marc J. |
The Redistribution of
Campaign Funds and Institutional Advancement in the U.S. House |
|
Lazarus, Jeff L. |
The Speaker's
Discretion: Selection of House Delegates to Conference Committees |
|
Londregan, John |
Centrifugal Voting |
|
Maddox, H. W. Jerome |
An Analysis of Career
Decisions in US State Legislatures, 1994-2002 |
|
Malloy, Jonathan P. |
Grassroots Party
Membership Patterns and Effects on Party Discipline and Cohesion in
Canadian Legislatures |
|
Martinez-Gallardo, Cecilia |
Sources of Cabinet
Instability in Latin American Presidential Regimes |
|
Martorano, Nancy |
Partisan Realignment
and Its Impact on the Legislative Process |
|
Maslin-Wicks, Kimberly
S. |
Evolution of Leadership
in the 19th Century U.S. Senate |
|
McElroy, Gail |
Party Switching in the
European Parliament: Why Bother Defect? |
|
Meinke, Scott R. |
Vote Choice and Vote
Change in the Antebellum House: Evidence from the Gag Rule, 1836-1845 |
|
Middlemass, Keesha M.;
Grose, Christian R. |
Congressional
Representation, Position-Taking, and The Median Voter: Testing
Legislative Theories with Newsletters and What it Says about Members'
Representational Styles |
|
Miler, Kristina C. |
Out of Sight, Out of
Mind: Legislative Perceptions and Congressional Representation |
|
Milyo, Jeffrey |
The Electoral and
Financial Consequences of Legislative Oversight |
|
Noel, Hans; Zaller,
John R. |
Local News and the
Quality of Congressional Representation |
|
Ono, Keiko |
The Voter Turnout and
Polarization of US Congress: A Casual Relationship? |
|
Orr, Ivy |
Competing Agents in
Parliamentary Oversight of the European Union: National Governments and
European Affairs Committees |
|
Overby, L. Marvin;
Petrocik, John R. |
Uncertain Terms:
Preliminary Empirical Assessments of the Effects of Term Limits in the
American Statehouse |
|
Owens, John E. |
Legislative Party
Cohesion in Comparative Perspective |
|
Paden, Catherine |
From Protest to
Politics? An Examination of Class-Based Barriers to African American
Political Representations |
|
Parker, Glenn R. |
Self-Policing in
Legislatures |
|
Pearson, Kathryn |
Party Discipline in
Theory and Practice: Leaders' Use of Legislative Preference to Reward
Loyalty |
|
Pereira, Carlos; Renno
Jr., Lucio R. |
Political Ambition in
Brazil: How Do Incumbents Decide their Political Career? |
|
Potoski, Matthew;
Lowry, Robert C. |
Leadership PACs in
Congressional Campaigns: Long-Run Party Building versus Short-Run
Ambition |
|
Primo, David M.; Milyo,
Jeffrey |
Political Institutions
and Public Trust: Evidence From the States |
|
Rackaway, Chapman |
Congressional Campaigns
and Congressional Campaign Committees in the 2000 Elections |
|
Rocca, Michael |
ItÍs Showtime:
Explaining Policy Oriented Non-Legislative Debate in the House of
Representatives |
|
Roberts, Andrew |
Ministerial Allocation
in Eastern Europe |
|
Rosenson, Beth A. |
The Effects of Ethics
Laws on the Recruitment, Retention, and Occupations of State
Legislators |
|
Rothenberg, Lawrence
S.; Choiu, Fang-Yi |
Preferences, Parties,
and Legislative Productivity |
|
Rozzi, Alan |
Explaining Conference
Committee Membership in the New Partisan Era |
|
Rybicki, Elizabeth |
Avoiding Delegation:
Bicameral Resolution Practices of the U.S. Congress, 1851-2002 |
|
Saiegh, Sebastian M. |
Coalitions,
Responsiveness and Government Defeat: Evidence from the Brazilian
Chamber of Deputies |
|
Sala, Brian R. |
War Chests and
Committee Chairs: Estimating the Value of a Committee Chairmanship Via
Fund Raising and Deterrence |
|
Samuels, David J.;
Neto, Octavio Amorim |
Cabinet Partisanship
and Proportionality and Executive-Legislative Relations Across Regime
Types |
|
Sarbaugh-Thompson,
Marjorie |
Democracy Among
Strangers: Relationships between Term-Limited Legislators in Michigan |
|
Schaffner, Brian F. |
Initiating and Shaping
Local Congressional News |
|
Schaper, Marcus |
German Pork?
Legislators' Strategies in German Bundesrat and U.S. Congress |
|
Schickler, Eric; Wawro,
Gregory J. |
The Development of
Legislative Institutions and Legislative Productivity in the U.S.
Congress, 1789-1989 |
|
Sellers, Patrick J. |
Local Bias in Coverage
of Party Messages |
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Shabad, Goldie;
Zielinski, Jakub |
Party Switching and
Political Accountability in New Democracies of Eastern Europe |
|
Shapiro, Ian; Birney,
Mayling |
Death and Taxes: The
Estate Tax Repeal and American Democracy |
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Sinclair, Barbara |
Legislative Cohesion
and Presidential Policy Success |
|
Smith, Keith W. Smith |
The Growth of
Congressional Oversight |
|
Sprague, Mary |
Do Committees Matter?
The Influence of the Appropriations Committee on Federal Spending |
|
Steigerwait, Amy L. |
Explaining Controversy:
Personal and Political Factors That Affect Whether A Court of Appeals
Nomination Will Become Controversial at the Committee Stage |
|
Stern, Aaron |
Evolution of
Legislative Roles: The Case of Thailand's Parliament |
|
Straus, Jacob R. |
Are All the Freshmen
Equal?: Comparing First Term Members in the U.S. House of
Representatives and Canadian House of Commons |
|
Sulkin, Tracy |
The Distribution of
Campaign Themes in Congressional Races, 1988-1996 |
|
Treier, Shawn A. |
Electoral Pressure and
Policy Change: Conversion or Replacement? |
|
Van Houweling, Robert |
An Evolving End Game:
Partisan Use of Conference Committees in the Post-reform House |
|
Vander Wielen, Ryan J.;
Maltzman, Forrest |
Changing Patterns in
Composition Bias in Congressional Conference Committees |
|
Walling, Jeremy |
Parties, Senators and
the 17th Amendment |
|
Weingast, Barry R. |
The Positive Political
Theory of Legislative History: New Perspectives on the 1964 Civil
Rights Act |
|
Wilkerson, John D.;
Adler, Scott |
Wait Until Next Year:
Congressional Policy Making and the Reauthorization Calendar |
NPSA BACK TO TOP
|
Author |
Title of Paper |
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Casellas, Jason P. |
Assessing the
Conditions Under Which Latinos Are Elected to the New Jersey Legislature |
|
Farrier, Jasmine |
Delegation Without
Deliberation: Congress Post-9/ll |
|
Frederick, Heather |
Women's PACs: Their
Motivations, Strategies, and Impacts |
|
Ginsberg, Beth |
The Effects of Race and
Ethnicity on Political Participation in the 2000 Presidential Election |
|
Hinojosa, Magda |
The Candidate Selection
Process: Explaining Variation in Women's Political Representation in
Latin America |
|
Iannello, Kathleen |
Women's Caucuses in
State Legislatures: The Roll of Partisanship and Culture in Three States |
|
Mann, Christopher |
District-Level Relative
Vote: The Role of Elections in Presidential Success in Congress |
|
McLauchlan, Judithanne
Scourfield |
Congressional
Participation as Amicus Curiae Before the US Supreme Court During the
Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts, 1953-1997 |
|
Moffett, Ken |
An Extension and
Reanalysis of Fiorina's Divided Government Thesis |
|
Morris, Joseph M. |
The New West and a New
Use for Nature?: A Look at the Environmental Attitudes of Montana
Elected Officials |
|
Straus, Jacob R. |
Legislation and
Congressional Freshmen: Issue Choice and Legislative Apprenticeship |
SPSA BACK TO TOP
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Author |
Title of Paper |
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Anderson, Bruce;
Wrzenski, Rhonda |
Party Structuring of
Roll Call Votes: A Three Chamber Comparison |
|
Battista, James |
Testing Party Theories:
Adaptation in a Changing State Legislature |
|
Bishin, Benjamin |
Subconstituency Politics
in Congressional Elections |
|
Blumberg, Melanie;
Green, John; Binning, William |
The Class of 1974:
Where Have All the Members Gone? |
|
Carson, Jamie;
Engstrom, Erik |
The Electoral
Connection in the Early U.S.: The Congressional Elections of 1826-1827 |
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Cassie, William ;
Barghotti, A.J. |
Legislative
Professionalism and Republican Gains in Southern State Legislatures |
|
Crespin, Michael; Gold,
Susan; Rohde, David |
Ideology, Electoral
Incentives, and Congressional Politics: An Examination of the Republican
Class of 1994 in the House |
|
Duffin, Diane |
Hitting the Ground
Running: The Influence of Career Preparation on Apprenticeship in the
U.S. House of Representatives |
|
Evans, C. Lawrence;
Lipinski, Daniel |
The Senate Hold and
Legislative Strategy |
|
Fackler, Tim |
Shaping the Context of
Public Debate: The Effects of Valence Issues on Party Positions and
Appeals |
|
Finocchiaro, Charles;
Rohde, David |
The Speaker of the
House in a Partisan Era |
|
Fisher III, Samuel;
Herrick, Rebekah |
Citizen Legislators and
Professional Legislators: A Comparison of Effectiveness |
|
Forrest, Walter |
Conditional Party
Government in the State Legislature |
|
Frisch, Scott; Kelly,
Sean Q. |
Democratic Leadership
and Democratic Committee Assignments in the U.S. Senate, 1953-1994 |
|
Goodman, Craig |
Strategic Repositioning?
Member Responses to Constituency Changes |
|
Grose, Christian;
Middlemass, Keesha |
Congressional
Representation, Position-Taking, and the Median Voter |
|
Hamm, Keith: Hogan,
Robert |
Campaign Election Laws
and Their Effects in State Legislative Elections |
|
Hartog, Chris Den;
Goodman, Craig |
Committee Composition
in the Absence of a Strong Speaker |
|
Hixon, William;
Marshall, Bryan |
Agendas, Side Issues
and Leadership in the U.S. Senate |
|
Ikari,Yasuo |
Revisiting the
Electoral Marginality Thesis: The House Roll Call on War on Iraq |
|
Jenkins, Jeffrey;
Crispin, Michael; Carson, Jamie |
Parties as Procedural
Coalitions in Congress: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
|
Krutz, Glen; Cullison,
Courtney |
Multiple Referral in
the 1990's |
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Lawrence, Eric;
Vitelli, Kim |
The Political Geography
of Organ Transplant Reform |
|
Maddox, H. W. Jerome |
An Analysis of Career
Choice in U.S. State Legislatures, 1986-2002 |
|
Maslin-Wicks, Kimberly |
Revealing Leadership
Through Roll Call Analysis: Howard Baker as Senate Leader |
|
Maslin-Wicks, Kimberly |
Roscoe Conkling:
Settling for Transactional Leadership |
|
McDonald, Jason |
Rifle Shots and
Republicans: Controlling the Bureaucracy Through the Appropriations
Process, 1995-2002 |
|
Moffett. Ken |
Examining Procedural
Choice in the House Rules Committee |
|
Ono, Keiko |
Polarized Politics and
Midterm Elections: An Electoral Connection |
|
Poggione, Sara |
Choosing a Biased
Agent: The Influence of Resources on the Composition of State
Legislative Committees |
|
Reeves, Andree; Reeves,
Mavis M. |
The Impact of Party
Switching on the Institution of Congress |
|
Roberts, Jason |
The Development of
Special Orders and Special Rules in the US House, 1883-1945 |
|
Schaller, Thomas |
Why Legislators Lie |
|
Schiller, Wendy |
Representation Within
Seante Delegations, 1880-1910 |
|
Seitz, Jason |
When Losers Work
Together: Opposition Party Unity Across Time |
|
Seo, Jungkun |
Party Ideology and
Party Factionalism: A Case of the Senate New Democrat Coalition During
the 107th Congress |
|
Solowiej, Lisa |
Conference Committees:
The House Advantage |
|
Strine, Harry C. "Neil" |
Stars on Capitol Hill?
Explaining Celebrity Appearances in Congressional Committee Hearings |
|
Wagner, Kevin |
The Small State
Advantage: The Democratic Divide in the U.S. Senate |
|
Wolfensberger, Donald |
Reorganizing Congress
and the Executive in Response to Focusing Events |