Before we dive into December’s publications, we’re taking a quick look back at November. Four new articles dropped last month -- each offering fresh insights into legislative politics. Check them out below!

🏆 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. A thread ⬇️

Check out "Rhetorical and Revealed Opposition to Compromise Among Local and State Legislators" by Melody Crowder-Meyer (@davidsoncollege.bsky.social). Link below 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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

📢 Lots of new research in Legislative Studies Quarterly! Check out the latest three articles in the🧵below:

🚨 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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🔍 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. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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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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/...

🗺️ 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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🚨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! 🧵

🚨 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. 🧠📊 🧵Thread below ⬇️ #PoliSci #LSQ #LegislativeStudies

🆕 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

Also available now: "Strategies of Control: Members of Congress and Policy Outcomes" by Erinn Lauterbach (Villanova University) and Melinda N. Ritchie (Ohio State) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Strategies of Control: Members of Congress and Policy Outcomes

Despite Congress' Article I powers, challenges within and outside of Congress prevent lawmakers from influencing policy outcomes. Legislators confront obstacles when trying to pass bills, and legisla...

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"Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming" by Peter T. McLaughlin (University of Rhode Island) is open access and available to read now on the LSQ website! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Priority Projects: Constituent Spending Demand and the Benefits of Congressional Credit Claiming

How do incumbents in the US Congress turn federally funded district projects into electoral gains? Clarifying the connection between federal spending and congressional elections is critical for under...

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Read it now --- "Military Experience and the Use of Force: Congressional AUMF Votes Among Combat and Non-Combat Veteran Legislators" by Matthew Fiorelli (United States Military Academy, West Point) and Heather Jebb (United States Military Academy, West Point). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Military Experience and the Use of Force: Congressional AUMF Votes Among Combat and Non‐Combat Veteran Legislators

Does prior military experience affect the way members of Congress vote when authorizing the use of military force abroad? Some scholars argue that military experience increases hawkishness, while oth....

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"Policy Content of Legislative Vetoes and Success of Presidential Activism Under Semi-Presidentialism" by Mažvydas Jastramskis (Vilnius University) and Lukas Pukelis (Vilnius University) is available to read at the link below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Policy Content of Legislative Vetoes and Success of Presidential Activism Under Semi‐Presidentialism

The power to veto legislation and return it to parliament is one of the most prominent presidential powers and a major source of presidential activism. Until now, research has mostly focused on the f...

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Read it now -- "The Separation of Powers and Policymaking in the US States" by Andrew M. O. Ballard (FSU Political Science), James M. Curry, (University of Utah), and Mary A. Kroeger (UNC). Access the article at the link below. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Separation of Powers and Policymaking in the US States

Do the separation of powers dynamics in the United States affect policymaking outcomes? Scholars and observers of national politics have long expected that they do, but since there has been little me...

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Read it now: "Analyzing gender gaps in bicameral legislatures: How asymmetrical institutions affect the supply and demand for female candidates" by @yoshiono.bsky.social (Waseda University), Yuko Kasuya (Keio University), and Hirofumi Miwa (Gakushuin University/Harvard University).

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🚨 The latest issue of Legislative Studies Quarterly (Vol. 50, Issue 1) is here! 🏛️📖 Explore research on electoral reform in Taiwan, geographic representation in the U.S. Senate, party messaging in Congress, and more. Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Rena Sung's "The Political Economy of High-Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High-Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress" is also available to read now! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Political Economy of High‐Skilled Immigration: Analyzing (Co)Sponsorship on High‐Skilled Immigration Bills in the U.S. Congress

What drives politicians' support for high-skilled immigration policy? I argue that politicians support different types of high-skilled immigration policy by balancing business demand for skilled fore...

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Dr. Daniel Casey's new article and data set "CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e-Newsletters in Australia" is available to read now at the link below. @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

CanberraInbox: Political Communication, the Personal Vote and Representation Styles—Studying Legislators' e‐Newsletters in Australia

This research note introduces CanberraInbox, a new, regularly updated dataset comprising the full text of all e-newsletters from Australian members of Parliament. The dataset addresses a gap in study...

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"'Stronger': Learning From Nevada's Women-Led Legislative Majority" by Noah Haynes (Philipps-University Marburg) and @jordanmbutcher.bsky.social (Arkansas State) is ready to read at the link below! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority

The gendered makeup of state legislatures has been in a constant state of change since women were first allowed to serve in office. Through certain periods, there have been accelerations in the rate ...

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New Article Alert‼️ "Who gets to speak for the party? How parliamentary party groups select spokespersons" by Tim Mickler (@polscileiden.bsky.social), @simonotjes.bsky.social (@polscileiden.bsky.social) , and David M. Willumsen (@polsciuibk.bsky.social) is available to read now.

Who gets to speak for the party? How parliamentary party groups select spokespersons

Members of parliament (MPs), and by extension, parliamentary party groups (PPGs), have to make decisions about all aspects of public policy. In many parliamentary systems, PPGs subdivide the workload...

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"Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists" by @bcegerod.bsky.social (Copenhagen Business School), @hjghassell.bsky.social (FSU), @joshmccrain.bsky.social (University of Utah), and David R. Miller (American University) is available to read now!

New article from LSQ: "Legislative turnover and lobbyist exits" by James M. Strickland (ASU School of Politics and Global Studies) is available now. Read about how legislative change shapes lobbying: 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #PoliSci #LegislativeStudies #Lobbying

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