Cambridge Studies in American Legislatures publishes research that confronts major questions affecting the study of legislative politics and political representation in the United States. The series advances problem-driven work that significantly advances theoretical understanding of legislative processes at the national, state, and local levels as well as scholarship that compares the US to deliberative institutions around the world. It is comprised of studies that employ a diverse set of methodological tools that help researchers develop original insights into legislatures’ role in American democracy.