- An Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures: Shor, Boris and McCarty, Nolan (Legislative Studies Quarterly), 2011
Highlights: Applies spacial models of ideology for individual legislative decision-makers to the U.S. states utilizing both roll call vote data and state legislator surveys - Committee Specialization in the U.S. State Legislatures During the 20th Century: Do Legislatures Tap the Talents of their Members?: Hamm, Keith E.; Hedlund, Ronald D, and Shirley Post, Stephanie (State Politics and Policy Quarterly), 2011
Highlights: Investigates the informational committee theory with new complex measures to determine to what extent committee assignments are used to enhance committee expertise - Comparative Advantage of State Interest Organization Research, The: Lowery, David and Gray, Virginia (The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups), 2010
Highlights: Argues the advantages of theory building and hypothesis testing to study state interest group activity over the use of large-n studies of U.S. interest plurality - Full-Time, Part-Time, and Real-Time: Explaining State Legislators' Perceptions of time on the Job: Kurtz, Karl L.; Moncrief, Gary; Niemi. Richard G. and Powell, Lynda W. (State Politics and Policy Quarterly), 2006
Highlights: Survey of "part-time" state legislators about their perceived time on the job - Institutions and Representational Roles in American State Legislatures: Cooper, Christopher A. and Richardson, Lilliard E. (State Politics and Policy Quarterly), 2006
Highlights: Attempts to explain what influences effect legislators' preference for either the trustee or delegate model of representation - Legislative Professionalism and the Power of State House Leaders: Clucas, Richard A. (State Politics and Policy Quarterly), 2007
Highlights: Study of increased state legislative professionalism's effects on legislative leaders' power - Measuring State Legislative Professionalism: The Squire Index Revisited: Squire, Peverill (State Politics and Policy Quarterly), 2007
Highlights: Discussion of the Squire Index of Legislative Professionalism and the distinction between its effects on legislators and legislatures - Multimember Districts' Effect on Collaboration Between U.S. State Legislators: Kirkland, Justin H. (Legislative Studies Quarterly), 2012
Highlights: Article demonstrates the electoral incentives multimember districts provide their legislators to collaborate with one another - Partisan Stacking on Legislative Committees: Hedlund, Ronald D.; Coombs, Kevin; Martorano, Nancy and Hamm, Keith E. (Legislative Studies Quarterly), 2011
Highlights: Examines the degree to which the majority party seeks to control legislative committees and thereby exert greater control on legislative bodies - Pockets of Expertise: Institutional Capacity in Twentieth-Century State Legislatures: Burns, Nancy; Evans, Laura; Gamm, Gerald and McConnaughy, Corrine (Studies in American Political Development), 2008
Highlights: Assesses the development of legislative capacity in state legislatures, accounting for both personal and institutional factors
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