Issue Information – TOC

• Published date: 01 May 2016
• Date: 01 May 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12097

Legislative Studies Quarterly

Volume 41, Number 2, May 2016

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Retrospective of LSQ’s First 40 Years

CONSTANZA F. SCHIBBER ................................................... 231

Do Open Primaries Improve Representation?

An Experimental Test of California’s 2012

Top-Two Primary

DOUGLAS J. AHLER,JACK CITRIN,

AND GABRIEL S. LENZ ....................................................... 237

Up the Hill and Across the Aisle: Discovering the

Path to Bipartisanship in Washington

MATTHEW N. BECKMANN .................................................. 269

When Voters Pull the Trigger: Can Direct

Democracy Restrain Legislative Excesses?

VLADIMIR KOGAN.............................................................. 297

The Power of an Hour: Effects of Candidate Time

Expenditure in State Legislative Elections

MICHAEL G. MILLER ......................................................... 327

Better Politicians: If We Pay, Will They Come?

MICHAEL M. ATKINSON,DUSTIN ROGERS,

AND SARA OLFERT............................................................. 361

Political Ambition in 14 Presidential Democracies

THERESA KERNECKER ........................................................ 393

Is Personal Vote-Seeking Behavior Effective?

THOMAS DA

¨UBLER,THOMAS BRA

¨UNINGER,

AND MARTIN BRUNNER...................................................... 419

The Ideological Congruence Illusion:

The Impact of Valence

PAUL V. WARWICK ........................................................... 445