The Forum
A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics
Ed. by Shafer, Byron / La Raja, Raymond J.
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Aims and Scope
This journal provides a forum for professionally informed commentary on issues affecting contemporary American politics. This includes but is not limited to issues engaging parties, elections, and political participation; the news media, interest groups, Congress, the Presidency, and the Courts; trends in public finance, presidential popularity, congressional productivity; in contemporary, historical, or comparative perspective.
The journal is motivated by the view that social scientists, historians, and legal
scholars frequently have important insights into the concerns that arise in contemporary politics and government, drawing
upon the disciplinary knowledge at their command. Yet they frequently lack a publishing outlet willing to print the analytic
reasoning that gives weight to the resulting commentary. The Forum is designed to fill this gap.
We
contemplate a journal free of fixed position and requiring no particular verdict with respect to policies, institutions, or
processes. Well-reasoned discussion disciplined by reference to established bodies of knowledge or aimed at stimulating the
creation of such knowledge is the goal of this journal.
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The Forum is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services:
- EBSCO: America - History & Life, Current Abstracts
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- ISI: Current Contents, Journal Citation Reports / Social Science Edition, SciSearch, Social Sciences Citation Index
- OCLC: WorldCat
Editors
Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Raymond J. La Raja, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Book Review Editor
Nicol C. Rae, Florida International University
Editorial Assistant
Pär Jason Engle, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Editorial Board
Sarah A. Binder, George Washington University
Edward G. Carmines, Indiana University
James W. Ceaser, University of Virginia
D. Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University
Gary C. Jacobson, University of California, San Diego
Richard G.C. Johnston, University of British Columbia
David R. Mayhew, Yale University
James Lee Ray, Vanderbilt University
Peter N. Skerry, Boston College
Paul M. Sniderman, Stanford University
Laura Stoker, University of California, Berkeley
Randall W. Strahan, Emory University
Amber Wichowsky, Marquette University