SPPQ

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.

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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.

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Now on FirstView: Abigail Mancinelli (@mancinelli22) investigates whether public funding of elections increases the number of candidates who run.

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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.
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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.

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