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Rhetorical and Revealed Opposition to Compromise Among Local and State Legislators 地方和州议员对妥协的口头和公开反对
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70034
Melody Crowder-Meyer
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When Politics Is Not Pivotal: Supermajority Debate Rules in State Legislatures 当政治不是关键：州立法机构的绝对多数辩论规则
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70035
James M. Curry, Robert L. Oldham
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Explaining How Subnational Politics Shapes Committee Assignment in a Federal Country: The Case of Argentina 解释地方政治如何影响联邦制国家的委员会分配：以阿根廷为例
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70033
Gabriel Levita, Victoria Ortiz de Rozas
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Geographical Representation on the Floor: Parliamentary Rules and Legislative Speeches in Party-Centered Contexts 议席的地域代表性：以政党为中心的议会规则和立法演讲
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-08-31 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70032
Edoardo Alberto Viganò
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Human Capital Exiting Capitol Hill? Differences in Congressional Staff Turnover by Race and Gender 人力资本退出国会？国会工作人员按种族和性别更替的差异
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-08-31 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70030
Alexander Bolton, Hans Hassell, Joshua McCrain
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Promoting a Diverse Bench: An Analysis of Elite Messaging About Descriptive Representation 促进多元化：关于描述性表征的精英信息分析
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70022
Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Albert H. Rivero, Andrew R. Stone
{"title":"Promoting a Diverse Bench: An Analysis of Elite Messaging About Descriptive Representation","authors":"Jaclyn Kaslovsky,&nbsp;Albert H. Rivero,&nbsp;Andrew R. Stone","doi":"10.1111/lsq.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 senators communicate about one of their most important constitutional duties—providing advice and consent on Supreme Court nominees. In this paper, we investigate how senators discuss Supreme Court nominations with their constituents, focusing on one common rhetorical strategy: highlighting the descriptive traits of nominees. Using a new dataset of press releases about nominee race and gender, we demonstrate that senators of both parties frequently discuss the descriptive traits of nominees. Next, we systematically investigate the determinants of this rhetoric, finding that shared characteristics with the nominee, copartisanship, and institutional position predict discussion of descriptive representation. Then, we use the CES to demonstrate the impact of these messages on constituent evaluations of senators; we find a modest boost in using such messages. Finally, we conduct a preliminary investigation of discussion of nominee religion using our framework. Our findings provide important insight into how senators use rhetorical appeals to appeal to constituents and make the case for diversity in governing.</p>","PeriodicalId":47672,"journal":{"name":"Legislative Studies Quarterly","volume":"50 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lsq.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144918734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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District Populations and Partisan Bias 地区人口和党派偏见
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70031
Barry C. Burden, Veronica J. Judson
{"title":"District Populations and Partisan Bias","authors":"Barry C. Burden,&nbsp;Veronica J. Judson","doi":"10.1111/lsq.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 gerrymandering by providing mapmakers with more “raw material” to manipulate, and this might make such districts less compact. Evidence based on measures of partisan bias, district population, and compactness suggests that more populous districts encourage partisan distortion and do so partly through violations of compactness. Regression analysis of lower and upper chamber state legislative maps shows that more populous districts lead to more partisan bias in maps even after accounting for other aspects of districts and Voting Rights Act requirements that affect how states draw district lines.</p>","PeriodicalId":47672,"journal":{"name":"Legislative Studies Quarterly","volume":"50 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lsq.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144894470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees, and Interbranch Conflict 制衡机制：拨款、国会委员会和部门间冲突
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70028
Jeremiah Cha, Jon Rogowski
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A Measure of Congressional Committee Influence 衡量国会委员会的影响力
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-08-02 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70027
Stefani Langehennig, Ryan Bell, E. Scott Adler
{"title":"A Measure of Congressional Committee Influence","authors":"Stefani Langehennig,&nbsp;Ryan Bell,&nbsp;E. Scott Adler","doi":"10.1111/lsq.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this article, we develop a temporally dynamic measure of each congressional committee's influence across nearly all areas of U.S. federal law. Our measure is derived from the United States Code, which provides detailed information on the evolution of public law across time and issue areas. We categorize sections of the U.S. Code by Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) policy topic areas and then construct a committee-level influence score based on committees' authorship and revision of each section. Spanning the 104th through 115th Congresses (1995–2018), our measure demonstrates that there are dominant committees that consistently exercise control over enormous portions of federal law, a handful of committees expand their influence over time, while others ebb and flow in their influence.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47672,"journal":{"name":"Legislative Studies Quarterly","volume":"50 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144758636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914 多民族国家的竞争原则：奥地利帝国的立法行为，1907-1914
IF 2.4 3区 社会学
Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1111/lsq.70029
Philip J. Howe, David Steinecke, Christina Isabel Zuber
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