Volume 26, Number
1 January 2003
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:
* APSA: Papers presented at
the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in
* NEPSA:
Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science
Association in
* SPSA: Papers presented at the annual
meeting of the Southern Political Science Association in
“Beyond the Vote: Congressional
Representation, Pork Project Allocation and Constituency Service,” Christian R.
Grose.
“A Bicameral
Comparison of Congressional Parties,” Gregory Koger.
“Bicameralism in
“Budget
Procedures and Outcomes: The Impact of the Budget Enforcement Act,” Bill A.
Heniff, Jr. and James Saturno.
“Can Special
Interests Buy Congressional Votes? Evidence from Financial
Services Legislation,” Thomas Stratmann.
“Catching the
Runaway Bureaucracy in
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“Coalition of
Extremes: Ideology and Partisanship in the
“Congress, the
President, and Veto Bargaining,” C. Lawrence Evans.
“Congressional
Careers and the Biological Imperative,” Daniel P. Franklin.
“Congressional
Responses to Presidential Action: A Look at Rally Events,” Michael Rocca.
“Connecting
with Constituents: Congress and Presentation of Self on the WWW,” Girish J.
Gulati.
“Contributors
and Women’s PACs: Motivations and Characteristics,” Christine L. Day and
Charles D. Hadley.
“Defining the Terms
of Debate: How Presidents, Party Leaders, and Committees Influence the
Decisions of the House Rules Committee,” Alan Rozzi.
“The
Development of Legislative Institutions and Legislative Productivity in the
“Disease, Death, and
Deliberation: Exploring the Congressional Response to the AIDS Epidemic,”
Stephen Kirk.
“Diversity and
Representation in Four Latin American Legislatures,” Leslie Schwindt.
“Dividing the
Indivisible: Procedures for Allocating Parliamentary Ministries to Political
Parties in a Parliamentary System,” Steven J. Brams.
“The Dynamics
of Cosponsorship Reconsidered,”
“The Early Senate
Reconsidered: Interpreting Bicameral Differences in Procedure and Legislative
Activity,” Daniel J. Wirls.
“Economic
Inequality and Political Representation,” Larry M. Bartels.
“The Effect of
Member-to-Member Campaign Contributions on Parties in the House,” Justin
Buchier.
“Electoral and
Institutional Consequences of Gridlock,” Sarah A. Binder.
“Electoral Pressure
and Policy Change: Conversion or Replacement?” Shawn A. Treler.
“Electoral
Success and Institutional Failure: The Case of the Populists in the
“El Parlament de
Catalunya: A Model for Regional Assertiveness in the EU?,“
William M. Downs.
“Emergence of
the Modern Senate,” Gerald H. Gamm and Steven S. Smith.
“The European
Parliament and the Statutory Control of European Policies,” Fabio Franchino.
“The Evolution
of Procedural Gatekeeping in the 19th-Century House,” Chris Den
Hartog.
“Examining
Presidential Influence in Congress: Testing A Theory of Anticipated Reactions
in the Realm of Foreign and Domestic Policy, 1953-98,” Bryan W. Marshall and
Brandon Christopher Prins.
“Executive’s
Strategic Choices on Coalition-Based Presidential System: The Case of Brazilian
Decision-Making Process on the Annual Budget,” Carlos Pereira and Bernardo
Mueller.
“Fear and
Self-Loathing in Congress: Institutional Pathologies and Delegation of Power,”
Jasmine Farrier.
“Fighting
Insecurity: Political Careers and Career Politics in
“The Formation
of Oversized Coalitions in Modern Parliamentary Democracies,” Craig Volden and
Cliff Carrubba.
“Frontier for
Freedom or Ripe for Regulation?
“Getting by
with the Help of Their Friends: Lobbyists and Legislators,” Richard L. Hall.
“Growing Eyes:
Understanding the Growth of Congressional Oversight Activity,” Keith W. Smith.
“‘He Has to Go’:
Analysing Ministerial Resignations in the
“House Committee
Assignment Requests of Minority Members,” Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q. Kelly.
“How Term
Limits and Career Opportunities Increase Career Advancement to the House,” John
M. Pippen.
“How the Tail Wags the Dog: The Impact of
Minor Party Entry on Incumbent Party Behavior,” Shigeo Hirano.
“The
Ideological Extremity of Senate Candidates Relative to Their Constituents and
Relative to Their Peers,” Joseph Gershtenson.
“If Policy Benefits
are Measured as Year-to-Year Changes in Federal
Programmatic Spending, Who Benefits and Why?” Barry S.
Rundquist and Thomas M. Carsey.
“Institutional
Change, Member Motivation and State Legislature Openness,” Donald Ostdiek and
Margaret R. Ferguson.
“Is the Committee of
the Whole the House? Implications of Michel v.
“Leaders and
Followers in the
“Legislators,
Executives, and Patronage Distribution,” Scott W. Desposato.
“The Limits of Term
Limits: More Competition or More of the Same?” Erik J.
Engstrom and Nathan W. Monroe.
“Looking
Good...Feeling Good! How Dyadic
and Collective Descriptive Representation Enhances Latino Efficacy,” Stacy
Burnett Gordon and Gary M. Segura.
“Media Friendly Congressional
Websites: Who is Reaching Out to Journalists on the Web?” Daniel
Lipinski and Gregory Glen Neddenriep.
“Members of
Congress as Contributors, When Every Race Counts,” Michael J. Malbin and Anne
H. Bedlington.
“The
Microfoundations of Political Trust,” William T. Bianco.
“Minority
Caucuses and Roll Call Voting in the State Legislatures,” Gerald C. Wright,
Jonathan Winburn, Tracy Osborn.
“Modes of
Moderation in the
“MP Constituency Activity in
Westminster-Style Parliaments,” Valerie Heitshusen and Garry Young.
“National
Parliamentary Scrutiny in the EU: A Party Perspective on Executive-Legislative
Relations,” Ronald L. Holzhacker.
“The New Seniority
System in the House and Senate,” Russell D. Renka.
“Nineteenth Century
Leadership in the U.S. Senate,” Kimberly S. Maslin-Wicks.
“Partisan Competition
for Media Coverage,” Patrick J. Sellers.
“Partisan
Polarization in Presidential Support: The Electoral Connection,” Gary c.
Jacobson.
“Party and
Preferences in the American Political System,” Matthew L. Gunning.
“Playing Both Sides:
PAC Contributions and Representation,” Jennifer A. Steen and Ian Shapiro.
“The President in the
Legislative Process: Preferences, Strategies and Outcomes,” Barbara Sinclair.
“Presidential
Popularity and Congressional Control of the Bureaucracy: The Clinton
Administration and the Contract with America,” David M. Hedge, Renee J.
Johnson, and Jeff M. Gill.
“Public Preferences
and Policy Change in the UK (and the US),” Christopher Wlezien and Stuart N.
Soroka.
“Quid Pro Quo:
Loyalty, Dissent, and Career Advancement in British Parliamentary Parties,”
Christopher J. Kam.
“Reexamining Gridlock
in the Legislative Process: A Transaction Cost Approach,” Brad T. Gomez.
“Reform as
Disruption: The Interaction of Political Pressure and Institutional Inertia on
the 1974 Budget Act and its Implications,” Fiona M. Wright.
“Reinterpreting the
Relationship between Race and Representation in Congress,” Ben Highton.
“Representation,
Campaign Spending, and the Maine Clean Elections Law,” Michael C. Herron.
“Representation,
Parties and Elections: Building Party Coalitions in the U.S. House,” Matthew
Potoski, Jeff Talbert, and Robert C. Lowry.
“Representation in
the Networked Society - The Americanization of European Representative
Systems,” Thomas Zittel.
“Representative
Committees? The Assignment Process in the European Parliament,” Gail McElroy.
“Rewarding Party
Loyalty in the U.S. Congress: Party Leaders’ Use of Legislative Incentives,”
Kathryn Pearson.
“The Role of Term
Limits in State Legislative Policy Decisions,” Priscilla L. Southwell.
“Roll Call
Participation in Lame Duck Sessions of the House of Representatives,
1870-1932,” Timothy P. Nokken.
“The Second Game: The
Opposition in Parliamentary Democracies,” Carolyn Forestiere.
“Senate Republican
Committee Assignments: A Case Study of Self-Selection,” R. Lawrence Butler.
“Signals of Conflict:
Rules Requests in the House of Representatives,” Linda L. Fowler.
“The Single Member
Plurality Electoral System in Canada and Its Discontents,” Donley T. Studlar.
“The Strategic Timing
of Leadership PAC Formation in the Senate,” Kristin L. Kanthak and A. J. Gibes.
“The Strategic Use of
Self-Executing Rules by the House Majority Party Leadership, 1991-1998,”
Gregory R. Thorson.
“Strategy and Choice
in 19th Century U.S. House Elections,” Jamie L. Carson and Jason M.
Roberts.
“Subconstituency
Politics: A Theory of Representation,” Benjamin Bishin.
“Suspended
Partisanship in the House: How Most Laws Are Really Made,” Don Wolfensberger.
“Televised Congress:
Technological Change and Institutional Innovation, 1974-1994,” Julian E.
Zelizer.
“Term Limits and
Electoral Competition,” William M. Salka.
“Theories of
Legislative Organization and Changes in State Legislative Rules of Procedure,”
Nancy Martorano.
“Understanding
Lobbyists’ Argument Styles: Medicare and Medicaid Hearings, 1991-2000,” Kevin
M. Esterling.
“Vetoes and Gridlock
During Unified and Divided Government,” David R. Jones.
“Where Do I stand?
The Initial Positioning of Newly Elected Legislators in the Antebellum House of
Representatives,” Craig Goodman.
“Whither the Right to
Change: Legislative Amendment,” Jeff L. Lazarus and Michael Brewster Hawes.
“Why Are The House
and Senate Floors So Different? Testing Competing Hypotheses Using Comparative
Data,” Andrew J. Taylor.
“You’ve Got That
Look: The Role of Race and Gender on Local Congressional TV News,” Brian F.
Schaffner.
NEPSA PAPERS
“Committee Leaders and the Redistribution of Campaign
Funds,” Eric Heberlig and Bruce Larson.
“Courts and Legislatures in the Diffusion of Policy
Innovations: A Competing Risks Model,” Thomas Schmeling.
“Defections, Defectors, and Individual Voting Decisions,”
Kevin J. Conway.
“Do You See What I See: Perceptions of Representation by
African American U.S. Representatives,” Danielle White.
“Federal Spending and
Committee Assignments Revisited,” Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q. Kelly.
“Gender Representation on Congressional Committees,” Jeff
Gulati.
“The House Rules
Committee Under Republican Majorities: Continuity and Change,” Donald
Wolfensberger.
“Legislative Leadership and Legislative Language: Using
Media to Shape the Conditions of Conditional Party Government,” Douglas B.
Harris.
“Legislative Politics in a Bicameral System: Strategic
Conferee Appointments in the U.S. Congress,” Jamie L. Carson and Ryan Vander
Wielen.
“Making
Post-Committee Adjustments: The Strategic Use of Self-Executing Rules,” Layne
Anderson, Cody Specketer, and Patricia Welte.
“Modeling Midterm
Congressional Elections,” Bruce Caswell.
“Old Democrats in New
Clothing?: An Ideological Analysis of the House New Democrat Coalition,”
Stephen K. Medvic.
“Politics of
Apportionment: Legitimacy, Race, and Single-Member District Legislation of 1842
and 1967,” Bernard Tamas.
“Predicting Conference Committee Compromises on
Appropriations Legislation, 1981-2000,” Geoff D. Peterson and J. Mark Wrighton.
“Reconciling Macro Level and Committee Level Effects on
Policy Change,” Valerie Heitschusen and Garry
Young.
“Rethinking the Party
Cartel Model: An Analysis of the Bolling Committee Reforms,” David H. Hogberg.
“The State of Committee-Centered Distributive Politics
Research,” Thomas Carsey and Barry Rundquist.
“Topical Matters: Constituency Concerns and Policy Areas as
Predictors of House Roll-Call Behavior,” Daniel Liam Singer.
“Up or Out: The Role of Committee Attractiveness in Defining
the U.S. House Career,” Garrison Nelson.
“Who are the Deficit Hawks? An Analysis of the Concord
Coalition Congressional Vote Scores,” Patrick Fisher.
“African-American
State Legislators’ Perceptions of Their Role as a Legislator,” Michael
Scicchitano and Charles Bullock.
“Assumed Impotence:
Parliamentary Opposition in National Legislatures,” Carolyn Forestiere.
“Citizen Discontent
and Congress: Investigating Political Support,” Stephen Farnsworth.
“Committee
Jurisdictions, Specificity, and Policy Outcomes in the States,” James Battista,
J. Donald Smith, and Wenda Sheard.
“Committee
Specialization in State Legislatures During the Twentieth Century: To What
Extent Do Legislatures Tap the Talents of Their Members?” Keith Hamm, Ronald
Hedlund, and Stephanie Post.
“Congressional
Actions and Public Reactions: Exploring the Link Between Congressional Activity
and Efficacy,” Jason Gainous.
“Congressional Party
Switchers: Why Do They Stay, Why do They Go?” Jennifer Barnhart.
“Congressional
Responsiveness to District Court Caseload,” Anthony Gabrielli.
“Congressional Staff
and Theories of Legislative Organization: The Case of the House Appropriations
Committee,” Sarah Handy and Randall Strahan.
“Continuity v.
Non-continuity: Differing Responsiveness Levels Among U.S. Representatives,
1975-1995,” Jean-Phillipe Faletta and Mary Herring.
“Deterring or
Defeating: Examining the Electoral Consequences of Legislative Behavior,” Janna
Deitz and Sarah Poggione.
“Do Stars Influence
Washington? The Effect of Celebrity in Congressional Committee Hearings,” Henry
“Neil” Strine IV.
“An Examination of
the Effects of Party Voting on Civil Rights Legislation in the U.S. House and
Senate, 1957-1990,” Bill Radunovich.
“The Growth of
Partisan Incumbency Advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1976-2000,”
Bruce Oppenheimer.
“How Individuals and Institutions Influence Dynamic
Representation,” Matthew Fellowes and David Kershaw.
“The Impact of
Jurisdictional Dynamics on Interest Group Lobbying,” Kathryn Shumaker.
“In Search of Killer
Amendments in the House, 1953-2001,” Jeffrey Jenkins and Charles Finocchairo.
“Incorporating
Political Institutions into Rent Seeking Games,” Kenneth Godwin, Edward Lopez,
Barry Seldon.
“Investigating an Old
Assumption: Constituent Preferences for Legislative Behavior,” Matthew
Stelmack.
“Lawmaking in the
Modern Congress,” Sean Theriault.
“Maverick or Realist?
James Jeffords and the Republican Party,” Jacob Straus and Shannon Bow.
“Maximizing Minority
Representation: Democratic Institutions and Descriptive Representation,” Seth
Jolly.
“A New Take on
Gridlock: The ‘Decline of Comity’ and Legislative Output,” Scot Schraufnagel.
“Old Assumptions in a
New Environment: Campaign Finance Reform in the New Millennium,” Pamela Fiber.
“One For All...Maybe
Not: An Examination of Black Political Behavior Within the Congressional
Committee System,” Danielle White.
“‘Orthodox’
Preferences, Deliberation, and Trade Policy in the U.S. House of
Representatives: Evidence from the New Democrat Coalition and Congressional
Progressive Caucus,” Celia Carroll.
“Parties and Roll
Call Voting in the House,” William Hixon and Bryan Marshall.
“Personal
Relationships and the Importance of Information in State Lobbying,” Adam Newmark.
“Presidential Success
in Congress: Which Presidents Do Better or Worse Than Expected?” Richard
Fleisher, Jon Bond, and B. Dan Wood.
“Race,
Representation, and Constituency Service: The Effect of Black Representation on
Service Strategies in Congress,” Christian Grose, Maurice Mangum, and
Christopher Martin.
“Sending Signals:
Lobbyist Testimony and Legislative Impact,” Tracy Mason.
“Shirking in the
Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal,” Jeffrey Jenkins, Michael Crespin, and
Ryan Vander Wielen.
“Stacking Committees
in the Antebellum Congresses: Committee Composition from 1828-1861,” Craig
Goodman.
“Subsconstituency
Politics: A Theory of Representation,” Ben Bishin.
“To Give or Not To
Give? Factors Influencing Leadership PAC Contribution Decisions,” Marian
Currinder
“Understanding
Corporate Lobbying: A Game-Theoretic Approach,” Kenneth Godwin, Edward Lopez,
and Barry Seldon
“Variations in Party
Voting in the House of Representatives, 1953-2000,” David Rohde and Ryan Vander
Wielen.
“Veto Bargaining
Between the Congress and President,” C. Lawrence Evans, John Gilmour,
Christopher Connelly, and Megan McGrew.
“When Legislators
Change Their Mind: Explaining Congressional Behavior on Fast-Track Trade
Status,” Glen Biglaiser, David Jackson, and Jeffrey Peake.
“The Work of Personal
Staff in the ‘Legislative Enterprises’ of Four State Senates,” Brian Russell.