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State Politics & Policy Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, Judicial and Constitutional Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 651 papers, which have received 16,897 citations.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Reference style | Numbered Numbered — [1], [2] in the text [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, State Politics & Policy Quarterly 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Electoral Systems and Political Participation Political Influence and Corporate Strategies Judicial and Constitutional Studies Policy Transfer and Learning Fiscal Policies and Political Economy |
| ISSN | 1532-4400 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.43 |
| h-index | 63 |
| i10-index | 353 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org |
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Abstract In this article, I revisit a widely used measure of legislative professionalism that I developed over a decade ago (Squire 1992a). I argue that professionalism has different implications for legislators than for legislatures and that the concept is distinct from careerism. I then discuss the mechanics of compiling the measure, its reliability and validity,…
Researchers are often interested in the effects of state policies and institutions on individual behavior or other outcomes in sub-state-level observational units, such as election results in state legislative districts. In this article, we examine the issue of clustered data in state and local politics research and the analytical problems it can cause. Standard estimation…
Abstract Berry et al.'s (1998) measures of U.S. state citizen and government ideology rely on unadjusted interest-group ratings for a state's members of Congress to infer information about (1) the ideological orientation of the electorates that selected them or (2) state legislators and the governor from the same state. Potential weaknesses in unadjusted interest-group ratings…
This article analyzes existing scholarship on the diffusion of public policies among the American states, focusing on recent developments in this line of research and suggesting several potential avenues for future work. The analysis is organized around three fundamental questions. First, why does policy diffusion occur? Answering this question will require scholars to devote more…
Abstract How do the American states vary in their propensity for innovativeness, or their willingness to adopt new policies sooner or later relative to other states? Most studies today use event history analysis (EHA) to focus almost exclusively on one policy area at a time at the expense of a broader understanding of innovativeness as…
