State Politics & Policy Quarterly ( SPPQ ) is the premier publication outlet for original research on state politics and policy. SPPQ publishes high quality academic studies that develop and test general hypotheses of political behavior and policymaking, exploiting the unique advantages of subnational governments. It also includes a wide variety of research on subnational governments, both inside the U.S. and cross-nationally and comparatively, including on the methods and data used to study the states, field review essays, research notes, and extension/replication papers. Founded in 2000 by Chris Mooney of the University of Illinois Springfield, SPPQ is the top-ranked state politics journal in the Thomson-Reuters Journal Citation Reports © , political science category. The editors call for manuscripts examining any aspect of political behavior, practices, institutions, and policy subnationally, as well as methodologies used to study these processes. SPPQ has no restriction on methodological or theoretical approach, but only those manuscripts that meet the most rigorous methodological and theoretical standards will be published in SPPQ . Most papers feature a theoretical and/or substantive contribution to studying the states. However, manuscripts that contribute new measures, new methods, or new models of particular use to state politics scholars are also encouraged. SPPQ is the official publication of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, and is a co-sponsor of the Annual State Politics and Policy Conference. Visit the SPP section website here: https://www.apsanet.org/sections/sectionDetail.cfm?section=Sec22. .
