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Mark P. Jones, Sebastian Saiegh, Pablo T. Spiller, Mariano Tommasi, Amateur Legislators -- Professional Politicians: The Consequences of Party-Centered Electoral Rules in a Federal System, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Jul., 2002), pp. 656-669
Jones et al. (Mon,) studied this question.