Volume 27, Number 2, July 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:
- MWPSA: Papers presented
at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 15-18,
2004, Chicago, Illinois.
- SWPSA: Papers presented at the Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 18-20, 2004, Corpus Christi, Texas.
- WPSA: Papers presented at
the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 11-13, 2004,
Portland, Oregon.
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Author |
Title of Paper |
|---|---|
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Acosta, Andres Mejia |
Party Brokers and Legislative Discipline
in the Ecuadorian Congress |
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Adler, Scott; Maestas, Cherie; Wilkerson,
John |
The Internal and External Factors
that Influence Legislative Specialization and Expertise |
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Aleman, Eduardo; Tsebelis, George |
The Origins of Presidential Conditional
Agenda Setting |
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Arnold, Charles B.; Hawkins, Larycia
A. |
Candidate Emergence in Congressional
Elections, 1976-2002 |
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Bargen, Andrew A. |
Party Power in the U.S. Senate:
Shaping the Ideological Content of the Legislative Agenda |
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Basinger, Scott J.; Ensley, Michael
J.; Cann, Damon |
Turnout, Mobilization, and Campaign
Finance in Congressional Elections |
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Baughman, John |
Subcommittee Government After the
Republican Resolution |
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Bejan, Andriana |
Legislative Efficiency in the Czech
Parliament |
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Benton, J. Edwin |
The Interplay of Party Leadership
and Standing Committees in a Competitive versus a Non-Competitive
State Legislative Setting: The Case of Florida |
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Berard, Stanley B. |
Moderation, Extremism, and Representation
in Congress |
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Binder, Sarah |
Transforming Senatorial Courtesy |
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Bond, Jon R.; Durham, Brandy M.;
Fleisher, Richard; Cohen, Jeffrey E. |
The Effect of Constituency Level
Presidential Approval on Support in Congress |
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Brady, David; Han, Hahrie; Pope,
Jeremy |
Dynamics of Candidate Ideology in
House Primaries, 1956-2000 |
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Brancati, Dawn |
Regional Parties, National Instability:
The Effect of Regional Parties on Government Stability |
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Brierly, Allen B. |
A Nash Bargaining Model of Redistricting |
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Calfano, Brian R. |
Keystone State Christianity and
Parish Politicking: Do Conservative Pennsylvania Parishes Influence
Abortion Politics in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives? |
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Campbell, Andrea C. |
Senate Amending: Winners and Losers |
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Campbell, Kristin L. |
Struggling to Set the Campaign Agenda:
Re-examining Media Bias |
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Carlson, Matthew M. |
The Costs of Japan's Mixed-Member
Electoral System |
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Carroll, Celia M. |
Assessing Deliberation on Environment
Policy in the House Resources Committee, 104th-108th Congresses |
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Carson, Jamie L.; Crespin, Michael
H.; Finocchiaro, Charles J.; Rohde, David W. |
The Impact of Congressional Redistricting
on Candidate Emergence in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1962-2002 |
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Carson, Jamie L.; Engstrom, Erick;
Roberts, Jason M. |
Congressional Redistricting and
Candidate Emergence in Nineteenth Century U.S. House Elections |
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Clinton, Joshua D.; Jackman, Simon;
Rivers, Doug |
Same Principals, Same Agents, Different
Institutions: Roll Call Voting in the Congresses of Confederation
and the U.S. Senate, 1781-1797 |
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Cody, Scott |
Shifting Pivots: Cloture Rules and
Legislative Outcomes in the Nebraska Legislature |
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Cortina, Jeronimo |
Minority Governments and Legislative
Professionalization: The Case of the Mexican State Legislatures |
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Crespin, Michael H. |
Direct Primaries, Sore Losers, and
the Openness of the Two Party System, 1904-1910 |
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Culhane, Paul J. |
Interest Group Capacity, Issue Involvement,
and Influence Strategies in the Energy and Environment Policy Arena |
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Curry, Brett W. |
Moving Up: Assessing House Member
Success in U.S. Senate Elections |
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David, Felsen J. |
The Executive, the Treasury, and
Budget Decision-making In Italy |
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Davis-Denny, Grant |
Divergent Disclosure: The Value
of Uniform Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws |
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Deposato, Scott W. |
How Robust are Electoral Institutions?
An Agent-Based Test of Electoral Rules and Ideal Points |
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Feeley, T. Jens |
Institutional Conflict: Party versus
Governance in Congress, 1979-1998 |
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Finocchiaro, Charles J.; Marshall,
Bryan W. |
Why Do it on the Floor when we can
Do it in the Rules Committee?: The Role of House Floor Waivers in
Affecting Committee Turf |
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Forestiere, Carolyn |
Institutional Reform and Legislative
Behavior: The Case of Italy |
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Forgette, Richard G.; Platt, Glenn |
Partisan Stratification, Legislative
Electoral Competitiveness, and 2002 Redistricting |
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Forrest, Walter; Ciftci, Sabri;
Tekin, Yusuf |
The Role of Parliamentary Committees
in a Nascent Party System; Committee Assignments in the Turkish Grand
National Assembly |
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Fowler, Linda |
Mixed Signals: Rules' Response to
Committee Requests, 96th-103rd Congress |
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Frey, Laura K. |
The Legislative Process and Presidential
Influence in Times of Crisis |
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Fukumoto, Kentaro |
How Many Laws does the Legislature
Make? Cross Country Comparison and Cointegrated Time Series of Japan |
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Fulton, Sarah A. |
An Expected Utility Model of Gender
and Candidate Emergence |
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Gamble, Katrina L. |
Minority Representation: An Examination
of Legislative Activity with U.S. House Committees |
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Garrett, Elizabeth; Smith Daniel |
Veiled Political Actors: The Real
Threat to Campaign Disclosure Statutes |
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Gerrity, Jessica C.; Osborn, Tracy;
Mendez, Jeanette Morehouse |
Women and Representation: A Different
View of the District? |
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Gibson-Gleiber, Lynne |
Congressional Support for Social
Policy Bills: Ideology and Intervening Factors |
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Gilmard, Sean; Hammond, Thomas H. |
Legislative Organization in a Multi-Institutional
Policymaking Context |
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Gilmour, John B. |
The Role of Uncertainty in Legislative-Executive
Bargaining |
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Glasgow, Garret; Cain, Sean |
The Signaling Effect of Political
Party Contributions in Congressional Races |
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Goodman, Craig |
Senate Elections and Consequences
for Pivotal Politics |
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Gordon, Stacy B.; Gillham, Casey |
Party Pressure and Legislative Voting
on the Contract with America |
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Green, Matthew N. |
Rivals for Power: Leadership Challenges
in the U.S. Congress |
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Griffin, John D. |
Assessing Explanations for Declining
Representation |
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Grose, Christian R.; Middlemass,
Keesha M. |
Congressional Representation and
Position-Taking |
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Grove, Sara A. |
Serving Seniors: Examining State
LegislatorÕs Constituency Service for Older Adults |
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Gulati, Girish J.; Treul, Sarah
A. |
Gender and Presentation of Self
on WWW |
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Gungor, Gaye |
Legislative Institutionalization
Re-Examined: How and Why? |
|
Habel, Philip D. |
The Impact of Changing Electoral
Institutions on Careerism: Evidence from the Illinois Legislature |
|
Hammon, Susan Webb; Bawden Allison |
Congressional Staff Elected to the
US House of Representatives: A Fast Track Career? |
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Hartog, Chris Den; Monroe, Nathan
W. |
The Value of Majority Status: The
Effect of JeffordsÕs Switch on Asset Prices of Republican and
Democratic Firms |
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Heberlig, Eric S.; Hetherington,
Marc J.; Larson, Bruce A. |
The Continuing Polarization of Congressional
Parties: The Role of Fundraising and Leadership Transitions |
|
Hines, Eric H.; Civettini, Andrew
J. |
Strategic Selection of Conferees
in the United States House of Representatives |
|
Hirano, Shigeo |
How the Tail Wags the Dog: The Impact
of Minor Party Entry on Roll Call Voting |
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Hoffman, Adam H. |
The Impact of Campaign Contributions
on State Legislators |
|
Jacobson, Gary C. |
Explaining the Ideological Polarization
of the Congressional Parties in the Postwar Era |
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Jarvis, Matthew G. |
Legislative Productivity and Congressional
Approval |
|
Jones, David R. |
The Effect of Divided Government
on Legislative Gridlock: Disaggregating the Data |
|
Jones, Mark P.; Wyang, Wonjae |
Provincial Machine Politics and
Party Government in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies |
|
Kim, Henry A. |
Congressional Voting, Parties, and
Divided Government |
|
Kim, Jangsu |
Reelection Constituency and Roll
Call Voting in the U.S. Senate |
|
Koger, Gregory; Bawn, Kathleen |
From Strom Thurmond to Jesse Helms:
Transaction Costs and Filibustering in the Senate |
|
Kyung-Jin, Jun |
Comparative Law Production Reconsidered |
|
Lawless, Jennifer L.; Fox, Richard
L. |
The Initial Run for Office: Decision
Dynamics of Entering Electoral Politics |
|
Lazarus, Jeffrey L. |
Push vs. Pull: Examining the Experienced
Challenger Effect in U.S. House Elections |
|
Lewis, Jeffrey B.; Poole, Keith
T. |
The Effect of Measurement Error
on the Findings of Studies Employing NOMINATE Scores |
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Lindstaedt, Rene; Vander Wielen,
Ryan J. |
Wherever but not Whenever; Analyzing
the Effects of Elections on Strategic Position Taking in the Senate |
|
Lipinski, Daniel W. |
Analyzing Congressional Party Communication
Operations from a Formal Perspective |
|
Liu, Zihua |
PAC Campaign Contributions and Congressional
Voting: Have Oil & Gas PAC Dollars bought the Drilling Rights
in ANWR? |
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Londregan, John B.; Aninat, Cristobal |
Legislative Parties in Chile |
|
Lowry, Robert |
Does Party Support Make Congressional
Elections More Competitive? |
|
MacDonald, Jason A. |
Republicans, Roll Calls and Rifle
Shots: Policy Making through the Appropriations Process |
|
Martin, Lanny W.; Vanberg, Georg
S. |
More than a Rubberstamp: Parliaments,
Coalition Governments and Legislative Scrutiny |
|
Matsumoto, Shunta |
Policy Determines the Inter-Branch
RelationshipÑThe Interactive Effect of Presidential Influence
and Policy Types on Party-Line Voting in the House of Representatives |
|
McCall, Kathryn; Bratton, Kathleen |
Determinants of Legislative Behavior
on Crime Policy |
|
McCollum, Leslie E. |
The Role of Personal Policy Interests
in Congressional Activity |
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Meyer, Fred A.; Baker, Ralph E. |
Punitive Correctional Policy: The
Impact of the State Legislature |
|
Miler, Kris |
Mental Access: Congressional Perceptions
and Organized Interests |
|
Milstein, Andrew E. |
Sending Institutional Messages?:
Tracking Opposition to Presidential Executive Nominees |
|
Moffett, Ken W. |
Reassessing Procedural Choice in
the House Rules Committee |
|
Mondak, Jeffery; Carmines, Edward;
Huckfeldt, Robert, Schraufnagel, Scot D. |
Citizen Knowledge of Congress and
its Members |
|
Monson, Quin |
Uncertainty, Information, and Polling
in Congressional Campaigns |
|
Newmark, Adam J.; Witko, Christopher |
Mobilization and Public Policy:
Business versus Environmental Organizations |
|
Nokken, Timothy P. |
Partisan Dynamics: Investigating
Partisan Floor Activities Across Congressional Eras |
|
Nussbaumer, Kirsten |
Election Campaigns, Independent
Expenditures and Issue Ads: The Implications of Bright Line vs. Intent-based
State-law Disclosure Rules for Strategic Behavior |
|
Nyblade, Benjamin |
The Effective Number of Issue Dimensions |
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O'Neill, Timothy; Barnes, Tiffany |
Learning to Govern: The Texas Experience |
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Pahre, Robert |
Euroskepticism in Parliamentary
Coalition Systems |
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Patten, Joseph N. |
Ethnic Politics: The Motivation
Behind Senate Foreign Policy Voting Behavior |
|
Pearson, Kathryn |
Does Where you Sit Depend on Where
you Stand? An Analysis of Members' Committee Positions |
|
Poggione, Sarah J.; Reenock, Christopher |
Legislative Strategies of Bureaucratic
Interaction: Explaining the Adoption of Ex Ante and Ex Post Tactics |
|
Pope, Jeremy C.; Levendusky, Matthew
S. |
Constituency Ideology: From Measurement
to Application |
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Powell, Lynda; Green, John; Herrnson,
Paul; Wilcox, Clyde; Francia, Peter |
The Representative Relationship:
Contributors' Contacts with their U.S. Senators |
|
Rackaway, Chapman B.; Bannister,
Mark C. |
Congressional Communication Strategies
using Official Word Wide Web Pages |
|
Raven, Thomas J. |
Congress in Dynamic Equalibrium:
Institutional Development and the House of Representatives 1890-2000 |
|
Raymond, Paul B. |
Determinants of City Council Candidates'
Campaign Activities |
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Razaghian, Rose |
The Financing of the Civil War:
Confederate and Union Efforts |
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Reifler, Jason |
A General Theory of the Effects
of Majority-Minority Districts |
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Reinhard, Michael R. |
Ideological Stability and Deliberative
Volatility: Evidence from Floor Votes and Policy Debates During the
100th, 104th, and 105th Congresses |
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Renka, Russell D.; Ponder, Daniel
E. |
Committee Leadership, Seniority,
and Orthodoxy |
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Rhudy, Robert; Burroughs, Nathan;
Dietz, Janna |
Ideological Convergence and Political
Risk in U.S. House Elections |
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Ringquist, Evan J.; Aamidor, Joe |
Lies, Damned Lies, and Campaign
Promises II: Environmental Protection Policy in Congress |
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Robbins, Suzanne M.; Hojnacki, Marie |
Organized Interests and Delay: What
Effect do Groups Have on the Implementation of Public Policy |
|
Roberts, Jason M. |
The House and Senate Roll Call Records
in Comparative Perspective |
|
Roust, Kevin A. |
Minority Rights in the House of
Representatives |
|
Russell, Brian E. |
The Work of Personal Staff in Four
State Senates |
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Schenk, Jennifer |
Gender and Descriptive Representation
in the 2002 Elections |
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Schiller, Wendy J. |
The Geography of Power: Coalition
Formation and Industry Influence in the House and Senate 1880-1930 |
|
Seo, Jungkun |
Polarized Parties vs. Centrist Faction:
The Case of the Senate New Democrat Coalition during the 107th Congress,
2001-2002 |
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Shor, Boris |
Taking Context into Account: Federal
Spending Across Congressional Districts, 1983-2002 |
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Singer, Daniel L. |
Interparty and Intraparty Partisanship
in the Postwar US House |
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Smith, Brian W.; Gershtenson, Joseph;
Mangun, William |
The Republican Revolution and Dynamics
of Environmental Policy Voting |
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Steen, Jennifer A.; Koppell, Jonathan
G. S. |
Timing is Everything |
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Steger, Wayne P.; Hamilton, Katherine
L. |
Gender and Legislative Activity:
Are Women Legislating for Women in 2003? |
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Sulkin, Tracy; Evans, Jillian |
Explaining Scope and Variation in
Congressional Campaign Agendas |
|
Swers, Michele L. |
Legislative Entrepreneurship and
Women's Issues |
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Taylor, Justin B. |
Lining up in a Circle? The Strategic
Environment and Congressional Primary Competition in 2002 |
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Theriault, Sean M. |
The Changes in Legislative Procedures
and their Impact on Party Polarization |
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Treier, Shawn |
Explaining Policy Change: Conversion
and Replacement |
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Tucker, Harvey J. |
Which is the More Deliberative Chamber? |
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Ura, Joseph D. |
A Congressional Gender Gap?: Gender
and Ideology in the US House of Representatives |
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Victor, Jennifer N. |
Does Ambition Matter? The Behavioral
Differences of Higher-Office Seekers Versus Congressional Contents |
|
Williams, Gwyneth I. |
The Innovation and Diffusion of
Joint Custody: The Language and Influence of Attorneys |
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Winburn, Jonathan |
The Fix is In: The Influence of
State Legislative Redistricting on Electoral Outcomes |
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Wiseman, Alan E.; Caldiera, Gregory
A. |
'Out of Step Out of Office' Revisited:
The Electoral Consequences of Legislative Shrinking |
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Wiseman, Alan E.; Herron, Michael
C. |
District Demographics and Partisan
Gerrymanders: The Effects of Politically Biased Redistricting on Election
Outcomes and Legislative Composition |
|
Wrighton, J. Mark; Peterson, Geoffrey
D.; Piper, Danielle L. |
Bigger is Not Always Better: Understanding
Bias in Senate Committees |
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Author |
Title of Paper |
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Abramowitz, Alan; Alexander, Brad |
The 2002 Midterm Election and the
Future of American Politics |
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Adler, Scott; Maestas, Cherie; Wilkerson,
John |
The Internal and External Influences
on Legislative Specialization |
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Bertelli, Anthony; Grose, Christian |
Administrative Appointments and
Strategic Delegation: An Analysis of Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Buchler, Justin |
Coordination Between Leadership
PACs |
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Carlson, Matthew |
'Buying' Votes in Japan's Lower
House |
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Carson, Jamie L.; Crespin, Michael |
Comparing the Effects of Legislative,
Commission, and Judicial Redistricting Plans on U.S. House Elections,
1972-2002 |
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Farrar-Myers, Victoria |
At the Cross-Roads of Campaign Finance,
Representation and the First Amendment |
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Feeley, Jens |
Partisan Policy Dominance in Congress |
|
Huan, Qingzha |
European Governing Greens: A Comparative
Perspective |
|
Jenkins, Shannon |
The Influence of Interest Groups
on State Legislative Behavior |
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Jones, Terrance E; Barth, Jay; Kroph,
Marth; Parry, Janine |
Floating Voters in Competitive U.S.
Senate Elections |
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LaRaja, Raymond; Apollonio, Dorie |
Term Limits, Campaign Contributions,
and the Distribution of Power in State Legislatures |
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Lasley, Scott |
Window of Opportunity: Candidate
Reemergence in the U.S. Senate Elections |
|
Markwart, Ben |
Unanimous Consent Agreements and
their Effects on Policy Space in the United States Senate |
|
Moffett, Ken |
The Effects of Professionalization
and Term Limits on the Partisan Composition of State Legislatures |
|
Reich, Gary |
Redesigning Electoral Systems: Electoral
Reform in the Brazilian National Constituent Assembly |
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Rocca, Michael |
Critics' Corner: Going Negative
During Non-Legislative Debate in the House of Representatives |
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Roscoe, Doug |
Party Influence in Congress: Evidence
on the Effectiveness of the Whip System |
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Sala, Brian |
An Alternate Ranking of Committee
Power in the House of Representatives |
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Schiller, Wendy |
Career Building Senate Representation
1886-1910 |
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Smith, Keith |
Seeing with Different Eyes: The
Methods of Congressional Oversight |
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Stone, Walter; Fulton, Sarah A.;
Maisel, Sandy |
Money, Electoral Prospects and Congressional
Election Outcomes |
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Thies, Michael; Martin, Lanny W.;
Druckman, James N. |
Influence without Confidence: Upper
Chambers and Parliamentary Government Formation |
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Wirls, Daniel |
De Tocqueville's Shadow: Myth and
Reality about Deliberation and Debate in the Antebellum Congress |
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Wright, Gerald |
Do Term Limits Limit Representation? |
