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ABSTRACTConsiderable research finds that male political scientists publish more research on average than do female political scientists. Yet the reasons for this difference are not entirely clear. Those findings may also overestimate the relative productivity of men because they do not account for the longer time that more men have been in the profession and thus have been publishing longer than women. For a prominent survey dataset of political scientists, we demonstrate notable cohort differences in the research productivity of both men and women across time. Our results also indicate that the overall greater productivity of men results in part from senior women scholars not generally enjoying the same benefits of long tenure on their research output as men do.

We document multiple forms of symbolic behavior by members of the US Senate & then offer systematic tests intended to account for variations in such behavior. Our measures of symbolic behavior are developed from floor speeches in the Senate, & we demonstrate that the major types of speeches match particular homestyle activities & other commonly recognized behaviors of legislators. Our empirical tests provide evidence that the frequency with which senators give particular kinds of speeches is predictable by theoretically grounded expectations about their representational, positional, & strategic interests. Our results provide support for the prospect of systematic analysis of symbolic behavior & representation & for developing integrated theory that takes account of symbolic & policy representation simultaneously. 2 Tables, 42 References. Adapted from the source document.