L. Marvin Overby

L. Marvin Overby publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

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L. Marvin Overby D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

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Best Publications

• Unintended Consequences? Racial Redistricting and the Representation of Minority Interests

  L. Marvin Overby;Kenneth M. Cosgrove

  143
  Citations

• Courting Constituents? An Analysis of the Senate Confirmation Vote on Justice Clarence Thomas

  L. Marvin Overby;Beth M. Henschen;Michael H. Walsh;Julie Strauss

  133
  Citations

• Community Context, Personal Contact, and Support for an Anti—Gay Rights Referendum

  Jay Barth;L. Marvin Overby;Scott H. Huffmon

  118
  Citations

• Outlying Committees in the Statehouse: An Examination of the Prevalence of Committee Outliers in State Legislatures

  L. Marvin Overby;Thomas A. Kazee

  97
  Citations

• Contact, Community Context, and Public Attitudes toward Gay Men and Lesbians

  L. Marvin Overby;Jay Barth

  94
  Citations

• Party Balancing and Voting for Congress in the 1996 National Election

  Charles E. Smith;Robert D. Brown;John M. Bruce;L. Marvin Overby

  72
  Citations

• Committee Outliers in State Legislatures

  L. Marvin Overby;Thomas A. Kazee;David W. Prince

  62
  Citations

• Race, Political Empowerment, and Minority Perceptions of Judicial Fairness†

  L. Marvin Overby;Robert D. Brown;John M. Bruce;Charles E. Smith

  62
  Citations

• Are Gay Men and Lesbians in the South the New “Threat”?: Regional Comparisons of the Contact Theory

  Jay Barth;L. Marvin Overby

  51
  Citations

• Assessing Constituency Influence: Congressional Voting on the Nuclear Freeze, 1982-83

  L. Marvin Overby

  47
  Citations

• Party and free votes in Canada: Abortion in the House of Commons

  L. Marvin Overby;Raymond Tatalovich;Donley T. Studlar

  31
  Citations

• Etiology and attitudes: beliefs about the origins of homosexuality and their implications for public policy.

  L. Marvin Overby

  29
  Citations

• Radio Advertising in American Political Campaigns The Persistence, Importance, and Effects of Narrowcasting

  L. Marvin Overby;Jay Barth

  27
  Citations

• Out and Running: Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Elections, and Policy Representation

  L. Marvin Overby

  26
  Citations

• Justice in black and white: Race, perceptions of fairness, and diffuse support for the judicial system in a southern state

  L. Marvin Overby;Robert D. Brown;John M. Bruce;Charles E. Smith

  26
  Citations

• Retirements, Retentions, and the Balance of Partisan Power in Contemporary Congressional Politics

  Adrian U.Jin Ang;L. Marvin Overby

  25
  Citations

• Legislative Organization Theory and Committee Preference Outliers in State Senates

  David W. Prince;L. Marvin Overby

  25
  Citations

• Parties, Preferences, and Petitions: Discharge Behavior in the Modern House

  Susan M. Miller;L. Marvin Overby

  21
  Citations

• Free Votes, MPs, and Constituents: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage in Canada

  L. Marvin Overby;Christopher Raymond;Zeynep Taydas

  16
  Citations

• White Support for Racial Referenda in the Deep South

  Byron D.Andra Orey;L. Marvin Overby;Peter K. Hatemi;Baodong Liu

  15
  Citations