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Studies in American Political Development is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering American Constitutional Law and Politics, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies.
| 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, Studies in American Political Development 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | American Constitutional Law and Politics Electoral Systems and Political Participation Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies American History and Culture Race, History, and American Society |
| ISSN | 0898-588X |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.55 |
| h-index | 42 |
| i10-index | 187 |
| Total citations | 9,099 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Harvard University Press |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org |
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Many perceive the clash between those advocating rational choice theory and their critics to be the dominant cleavage in contemporary political science. At least as fundamental, if much less widely discussed, is the divide over the role of historical analysis (or the investigation of temporal processes). Most social scientists take a “snapshot” view of political…
Civil rights cemented its place on the national agenda with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fair housing legislation, federal enforcement of school integration, and the outlawing of discriminatory voting mechanisms in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Less recognized but no less important, the Second Reconstruction also witnessed one of the…
Theoretical and descriptive studies of the Supreme Court exhibit a curious parallel. Both usually begin from the premise that judicial review is “a deviant institution in a democratic society.” Much normative work claims that independent judicial policymaking is rarely legitimate in a democracy because, with few exceptions, elected officials rather than appointed judges should resolve…
Institutions are instruments of stability. Twenty years of research in the “new institutionalism” has produced voluminous studies into how structures constitute or constrain the behavior of actors in political, social, and economic contexts. Agenda controls order and limit the alternatives actors choose from, logics of appropriateness dictate appropriate “scripts” agents follow in structural contexts, learning…
Paul Pierson's “Not Just What, but When: Timing and Sequence in Political Processes” is a fitting centerpiece for this symposium. The article takes up themes that have occupied students of comparative politics for some time now and moves the debate decisively forward.For earlier efforts to assess the role of sequencing and timing in politics, see…
