Studies in American Political Development

New at First view and with open access! David Mayhew and Ethan Yan, "Intensity, Geography, and Time"

Suddenly thinking about quorum requirements in state legislatures? Here's a useful piece on the history of quorum politics: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New in first view with open access! How partisans gerrymandered southern states in current.... whoops, we mean post-Reconstruction South. Parallels, maybe? Excellent new work from @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social

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Redrawing the South: County Creation as a Partisan Tool during Reconstruction - cup.org/4m98qCE

- @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social

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New on first view at SAPD! Sarah Anzia and @trounstine.bsky.social on the growth of public sector unions

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The Growth of Public-Sector Unions in Early Twentieth-Century America - cup.org/45bQUI9

- Sarah F. Anzia & @trounstine.bsky.social

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NEWS -

From the 1st of July 2025 all articles accepted for publication in Studies in American Political Development (@studiesapd.bsky.social) will be #OpenAccess; published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online.

Find out more - cup.org/4kltmoS

Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the opportunity to write this piece (drawing on my recent @studiesapd.bsky.social article) about the connection between conflicts over affirmative action and the unitary executive theory in the Reagan administration.

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-reagan...

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Redrawing Democracy: Quantifying House District Continuity and Change, 1789–2024 - cup.org/3YMhxQG

- @uhackett.bsky.social

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Divine Intervention: Catholicism, Abortion, and the Construction of Health Care in the United States and Canada - cup.org/4dlTs9k

- Angela Elissa Kothe

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Our latest issue available via open access. Plus our new cover design!

Want to know more about the origins of the unitary executive? @johnadearborn.bsky.social looks to the Reagan Administration. New at SAPD!

Clientelism is hard to reform! New at SAPD! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Trump keeps saying the highpoint of the US economy (and link to foreign policy) is the McKinley era's tariffs at the turn of the 20th century. What actually happened then? Another from our archives by @benfordham: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another currently relevant piece from our archives, this one by Andrea Campbell and Kimberly Morgan focusing on the policies by which we have financed social security and other entitlement programs www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From our archives, seems quite pertinent for the current moment! @askellyphd.bsky.social The Political Development of Scientific Capacity in the United States* | Studies in American Political Development | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New in first view! Donovan Fifield, “Our Own and Our Country’s Ruin”: Public Credit, War Markets, and Political Transition in the Colonial American Northeast, 1758–1768 | Studies in American Political Development | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New at SAPD: Marcus Lee on Bayard Rustin: "The Search for Our Bayard: 1987–2013 | Studies in American Political Development | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New at SAPD: The Culture War and Partisan Polarization: State Political Parties, 1960–2018 | Studies in American Political Development | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...