Issue Information – TOC

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12095
• Published date: 01 February 2016
• Date: 01 February 2016

Legislative Studies Quarterly

Volume 41, Number 1, February 2016

Table of Contents

Introduction

BRIAN F. CRISP..................................................................... 3

Congressional Institutionalization: A Cross-National

Comparison

VALERIA PALANZA,CARLOS SCARTASCINI,

AND MARIANO TOMMASI........................................................ 7

Electoral Rules and Legislative Parties in the Ukrainian

Rada

FRANK THAMES ................................................................... 35

Mapping and Explaining Parliamentary Rule Changes

in Europe: A Research Program

ULRICH SIEBERER,PETER MEIßNER,JULIA F. KEH,

AND WOLFGANG C. MU

¨LLER................................................ 61

Legislative Knowledge Networks, Status Quo

Complexity, and the Approval of Law Initiatives

ALEJANDRO BONVECCHI,ERNESTO CALVO,

AND ERNESTO STEIN ............................................................ 89

Do Campaign Donors Inf‌luence Polarization? Evidence

from Public Financing in the American States

JEFFREY J. HARDEN AND JUSTIN H. KIRKLAND ................... 119

Challenger Quality and the In cumbency Adva ntage

PAMELA BAN,ELENA LLAUDET,

AND JAMES M. SNYDER JR................................................. 153

Approaches to Studying Policy Representation

DAVID E. BROOCKMAN ...................................................... 181

About the Authors................................................................. 217

Reviewers of LSQ Manuscripts during 2015 ....................... 223