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.

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.

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

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.

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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Now when you submit to SPPQ you will be prompted to select either an original article submission or a short article submission.

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.

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.

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.

@GIDONGKIM3 examines both the direct and indirect impacts of labor unions on voter turnout.

Also in the new issue: Christian Caron seeks to determine the partisan motivation behind the adoption of same day voter registration.

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.

The June 2022 issue is out and open access until the end of June. Check it out here:

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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.

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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.