Her work on state politics and policy, legislative organization, and women in elective office has appeared in American Review of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly as well as edited volumes on southern politics, women and politics, and public policy. Professor Poggione's current research investigates the effects of state legislative institutions on state legislators' representational behavior and state policy. She finds that gender differences in state legislators’ activities are influenced by the kind of institution in which they serve, and that differences in the structure or organization of state legislatures produce differences in state policy adoption and implementation.