Official twitter for State Politics & Policy Quarterly, the journal for the State Politics and Policy section of APSA. Called the “Meryl Streep of journals.”
Hello Everyone, we have big news this morning!
SPPQ will now begin accepting short article submissions. These articles will have 4,000 words or less and include more brief introduction and theory sections.
https://t.co/RwGBKyGM2X
Now on FirstView: Seth Warner advocates for studying governors as a means to better understand the impact of executive ideology. He shows that compared to citizen or legislature ideology, executive ideology is more predictive of state policy liberalism.
https://t.co/ftnrWmkDF9
Now on FirstView: Abigail Mancinelli (@mancinelli22) investigates whether public funding of elections increases the number of candidates who run.
https://t.co/P8Fv5qapmg
Now available on Cambridge FirstView: Matthew Green develops a index score measuring the formal power of the top chamber-elected leader of each state senate and uses the data to test various hypotheses explaining variation in the power of leaders.
https://t.co/kqdMU21ogK
With the Dobbs decision in June 2022, the Supreme Court returned power over the legalization of abortion to the states. SPPQ's new collection on abortion policy includes articles examining the factors shaping state abortion laws.
https://t.co/2aKn72sNgz
Now when you submit to SPPQ you will be prompted to select either an original article submission or a short article submission.
https://t.co/O7xZtG3hwp
Hello Everyone, we have big news this morning!
SPPQ will now begin accepting short article submissions. These articles will have 4,000 words or less and include more brief introduction and theory sections.
https://t.co/RwGBKyGM2X
The editorial team believes these short articles will be a perfect place to introduce a new dataset, or provide alternative theoretical or methodological approaches. We look forward to seeing your submissions for this new type of article in SPPQ!
Last but not least in the new issue: Janine Parry, Andrew Dowdle, Abigail Long, and Jessica Kloss reexamine the operationalization of party competition in the states and update Klarner’s state partisan balance data.
https://t.co/wJrEWat2x2
Mary Kroeger investigates the influence of groups in the legislative process, and finds that group input serves as an integral part of a legislative portfolio and the agenda-setting stage of legislative decision making.
https://t.co/62ibQHd0bN
Next up in the new issue: @mingxiaosui and @newlypaul examine how the racial composition of journalists in a newsroom and of the news audience influence how political candidates are covered.
https://t.co/gItb8CHrRF
Also in the new issue: Christian Caron seeks to determine the partisan motivation behind the adoption of same day voter registration.
https://t.co/V4ZZZylAPn
First in the new issue: Nicholas Bernardo Jr., Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, and Gretchen Macht investigate the effects of ballot complexity on the likelihood of voting errors, and find that longer ballots result in more errors.
https://t.co/xSlMbPUAJf
Now on FirstView: @ProfLeonard_ISU introduces a new article on over 1,200 state legislative bills aimed at restricting the power of the courts. The author describes the dataset in detail and outlines several potential future uses of this novel data.
https://t.co/JXY0qCDO58
Now on FirstView: Colin Emrich explores the conditions under which legislative leaders prefer formal bicameral conference negotiations to informal talks to reach final legislative agreements.
Now on FirstView: Colin Emrich explores the conditions under which legislative leaders prefer formal bicameral conference negotiations to informal talks to reach final legislative agreements.
Now open access on FirstView: @profwschiller and @KSidorsky explore the ways that federalism exacerbates gender inequality by explaining the adoption of domestic violence laws across different states in the context of policy diffusion.
https://t.co/7SvdGFzrEJ