Logrolling is a colorful phrase used to describe trading of votes by legislative members to obtain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member. The term is also used for similar activities in academics, notably the "cross quoting" of papers in order to drive up reference counts. Votes are people of Votia who speak the Finno-Ugric Votic language, who until World War II lived in the northern parts of Estonia. ... A legislature is a governmental deliberative body with the power to adopt laws. ... Look up Passage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... In general, a reference is something that refers or points to something else, or acts as a connection or a link between two things. ...

The phrase is likely derived from the old custom of neighbors assisting each other with the moving of logs. If two neighbors had cut a lot of timber which needed to be moved, it made more sense for them to work together to roll the logs – if you'll help me roll my logs, I'll help you roll yours. Custom has a number of meanings: A custom is a common practice among a group of people, especially depending on country, culture, time, and religion. ... Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... Timber Timber is a term used to describe wood throughout its processing from the time it is planned for use in industrial products to the time it is used as a structural material or in other industrial product, such as wood pulp for paper production. ...

The Nuttall Encyclopedia describes logrolling slightly differently, as "mutual praise by authors of each other's work." The Nuttall Encyclopaedia is an early 20th century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. ...

Spy Magazine ran a feature titled "Logrolling in Our Time" where suspicious or humorous examples of mutually admiring book jacket blurbs by pairs of authors were cited. Spy magazine was founded in 1986 by Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter. ... A blurb is a short summary or some words of praise accompanying a creative work. ...

See also:

• quid pro quo.
• Blogroll

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. Quid pro quo (Latin for this for that, many times understood by English speakers as what for what or something for something) is used to mean, in the English speaking world, a favour for a favour (in other linguistic contexts, such as Portuguese and French, it means a misunderstanding, a... A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Nuttall Encyclopaedia is an early 20th century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. ...